Albert Einstein The Menace Of Mass Destruction Full Speech Work May 2026

"I have come to the United Nations today as a messenger of the scientists of the world. I have been asked to convey a message, which I believe I can do best by reading it to you:

"I believe that it is imperative that the nations of the world should unite to develop a world government, which would make it possible to prevent the threatened destruction. This cannot be done by one nation alone." "I have come to the United Nations today

Einstein's speech began with a stark warning: "The evil unleashed by the discovery of the means of releasing atomic energy has not brought about the downfall of our civilization, but it has made it imperative that we should bring about this downfall ourselves, in order to be saved." He emphasized that the destructive power of nuclear weapons was unlike anything humanity had ever experienced before: "The world has not been able to find a more detestable and hateful product of man's ingenuity than the explosive nuclear weapon." "I have come to the United Nations today