Albert Einstein The Menace Of Mass Destruction Full Speech -

I am grateful for this opportunity to speak with you tonight. I speak not as a physicist, but as a human being — a citizen of this world, deeply troubled by the shadow that has fallen upon it.

What I must say to you tonight is simple, and it is terrible:

A single war fought with atomic bombs — perhaps even a dozen of them — could end the life of every person on this planet. Not just the soldiers. Not just the cities. The entire civilization. The crops. The water. The air itself, poisoned with radioactive dust that would circle the earth for generations. albert einstein the menace of mass destruction full speech

We have seen what it does. One bomb — one single bomb — erased a city from the earth. Men, women, children, the old and the newborn — turned to ash in a single flash of heat brighter than the sun. Those who did not die instantly wandered the ruins, their skin hanging from their bodies, their eyes melted, their lungs filled with invisible death that would kill them weeks later — slowly, quietly, cruelly.

Thank you. End of speech.

Tonight, I do not ask you to agree with every detail of my proposal. I ask only this: Think as if your children’s lives depend on it — because they do. Think as if your species’ survival depends on it — because it does.

I propose, therefore, that we work toward a supranational organization — a world government — with the sole authority to possess atomic materials and weapons. Every nation must surrender its sovereignty over the means of mass destruction. This is not a dream. It is a necessity, as necessary as oxygen for a drowning man. I am grateful for this opportunity to speak with you tonight

This is a delusion. A fatal delusion.