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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 25. maj 1946 / Time Line May 25, 1946
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Atomic Education Urged by Einstein, New York Times, 1946,
May, 25, 1946
Scientists in Plea for $200,000 to Promote New Type of Essential
Thinking
Dr. Albert Einstein,
whose formula on the equivalence of mass and energy led to the
discovery of the enormous amount of energy locked up within the
atom, issued a personal appeal yesterday by telegram to several
hundred prominent Americans. He asked contributions to a fund of
$200,000 with which to carry on a nationwide campaign "to let the
people know that a new type of thinking is essential" in the atomic
age "if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels."
The campaign, Dr. Einstein's telegram says, is to be carried out by
the newly formed Emergency
Committee of Atomic Scientists, or which Dr. Einstein is
chairman. Other members of the committee who signed the appeal are
Prof. Hans A. Bethe of Cornell University, who played a major role
in the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, N.M.; Dr. Leo
Szilard of the Manhattan Engineering Districts's atomic laboratory
at the University of Chicago, who pioneered in the development of
atomic power piles; Prof. Harold C. Urey of the University of
Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies, Nobel Prize winner and
former director of the atomic research center at Columbia
University, and Dr. Edward U. Condon, president of the American
Physical Society and Director of the National Bureau of
Standards.
The Federation of American Scientists also joined in the appeal
Dr. Einstein's telegrams says:
"Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing
power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power
of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and
we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.
"We scientists who released this immense power have an overwhelming
responsibility in this world life-and-death struggle to harness the
atom for the benefit of mankind and not for humanity's
destruction....
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