Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Essays

Many new talks between the two countries would come along with many new advancements in weaponry.

The U.S. would then be able to decide what happens to the other nations who opposed them because they are weakened and the U.S. would be able to conquer them or do what they did to Japan and bomb them and nations would either have to keep fighting or

5. Time to prepare for war – ‘We got peace for our country for 18months, which let us make military preparations’. - Stalin

get mad at eachother because America was allied with both so the U.S. didn't want them to fight

The forty-five years from the dropping of the atom bombs to the end of the Soviet Union, can be seen as the era of the new conflict between two major states: United States of America (USA) and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). According to Hobsbawm, ‘cold war’ was the constant confrontation of the two super powers which emerged from the Second World War. At that time the entire generation was under constant fear of global nuclear battles. It was widely believed that it could break out at any moment. (Hobsbawm, 1994) The consequences of the ‘power vacuum’ in central Europe, created by the defeat of Germany, gave rise to these two super powers (Dunbabin, 1994). The world was divided into

"...no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."

"I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us" (President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1942, Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War).

nor enduring conflict with any. In reality, political conflict had already begun and would grow more intense between

“Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?”

It would be the war to end all wars. Introspection had also become a religion. The first war would mean life or death. Introspection was a crisis and Christianity had been outlawed in 2050. Our fight was against the RBF and it would bring Christianity back.

* Because of the Truman Doctrine we might find ourselves in an array of fights.

One country along would be in the right, and all the rest of the World put under an obligation of following their Princes in the ways that lead to Destruction; and that which heightens their

getting very impatient and more aggressive. In the end, it turned into an all out war (history 2).

happen to America, and would this be a “good war” for them? I believe World War II was a

In the summer of 1939, Einstein, along with another scientist, Leo Szilard, was persuaded to write a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to alert him of the possibility of a Nazi bomb. President Roosevelt could not risk the possibility that Germany might develop an atomic bomb first. The letter is believed to be the key factor that motivated the United States to investigate the development of nuclear weapons. Roosevelt invited Einstein to meet with him and soon after the United States initiated the Manhattan Project (M. Talmey).