One World Or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic BombDexter Masters, Katharine Way In 1946, just months after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the scientists who had developed nuclear technology came together to express their concerns and thoughts about the nuclear age they had unleashed. In a small, urgent book of essays, legends including Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, and Robert Oppenheimer try to help readers understand the magnitude of their scientific breakthrough, fret openly about the implications for world policy, and caution, in the words of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Harold C. Urey, that "There Is No Defense." The original edition of One World or None sold 100,000 copies and was a New York Times bestseller. Today, with the nuclear issue front and center once more, the book is as timely as ever. Contributors:
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... collective security . We may recall the seizure of Manchuria in 1931–1932 , Ethiopia in 1935 , the Spanish civil war in 1936 , the reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 , the episode of the Panay in 1937. It is in these early stages of ...
... collective security will not be used be- cause it is just as terrifying to the policeman as it is to the lawbreakers . It punishes the law - enforcing states , at least until they have paid the awful price of victory , as much as the ...
... collective security is such a bad method of enforcing laws and agreements . The principle is to make individuals , not sovereign states , the ob- jects of the international agreements ; it is to have laws oper- ate upon individuals ...
Contents
If the Bomb Gets Out of Hand Philip Morrison | 1 |
The Way | 14 |
Its an Old Story with the Stars Harlow Shapley | 16 |
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