Regina Meredith

Excerpt From Albert Einstein’s 1947 Letter To United Nations – Also Signed By Oppenheimer

November 29th. 1947

As I see it, this is the way for the nations of the world to break the vicious circle which threatens the continued existence of mankind, as no other situation in human history has ever done.

We are caught in a situation in which every citizen of every country, his children, and his life’s work, are threatened by the terrible insecurity which reigns in our world today.

The progress of technological development has not increased the stability and the welfare of humanity.

Because of our inability to solve the problem of international organization, it has actually contributed to the dangers which threaten peace and the very existence of mankind.

(So long as international relations are determined by rival national sovereignties, the threat of atomic war will remain.)_ [Added for clarity. Editor]

ALBERT EINSTEIN, 1947