Albert Einstein The Menace Of Mass Destruction Hot Full Speech |best| Access

And as long as warheads sit in silos and submarines, Einstein’s "full speech" is not over. It remains open, unfinished, and waiting for a final sentence that humanity has yet to write.

I do not ask you to unlearn physics. That is impossible. I ask you to learn politics. The atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking. Thus, we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. We have created the machinery for genocide so efficient that one man pushing a button can destroy the work of ten thousand years of civilization. And as long as warheads sit in silos

Some military men call this 'deterrence.' They believe that if both sides possess the bomb, neither will use it. This is a gambler’s logic. It assumes that all future leaders will be rational. History, as I have observed it, is not written by rational men. It is written by the angry, the fearful, and the desperate. That is impossible