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"If the present bitterness continues... we face catastrophe."
Not long after the end of World War II, Albert Einstein founded the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. He and his co-founder, scientist Leo Szilard, toured the country to educate the public on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Ironically, an earlier letter signed by Einstein -- warning President Roosevelt of the dangers of a possible German atomic bomb -- is credited with starting the US drive to establish the Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb. |