Albert Einstein The Menace Of Mass Destruction Hot Full [portable] Speech

Following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the world entered a terrifying new reality. The United States held a brief monopoly on nuclear weapons, but the Soviet Union was rapidly developing its own capability. Einstein saw that humanity was locked in a dangerous arms race that could lead to mutual annihilation. In response, he helped found the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear warfare. Themes of the Address

Unlike the dry, academic lectures of his youth, this speech is emotional . It is raw. It is what the internet generation calls a "hot" speech—not because of temperature, but because of its urgent, angry, and despairing tone. Following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in