How did einstein react to the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki

Author • Christopher B. Daly Professor of Journalism, Boston University Disclosure statement Christopher B. Daly does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Partners More than seventy-five years ago this week, the U.S. military revealed the greatest and best-kept secret of the Allied effort to win World War II. The use of the atomic bomb proved to the world that it was indeed possible to make one. But how had it been possible to keep the secret? And how did U.S. journalists break the news? From New York to Oak Ridge In April of 1945, General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army approached the managing editor of The New York Times. Based on the research for my history of journalism, Without many more preliminaries, Laurence headed off to his new assignment in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. There, Groves pulled back the shroud protecting the nation’s biggest wartime gamble and introduced Laurence to the Manhattan Project. The Army wanted a civilian on board who could help with drafting press releases, writing news stories and explaining the vast and complex undertaking to the general public. Laurence was a good choice. A native of Lithuania, Laurence had immigrated to the United States as a teenager and attended Harvard and Boston University. At the Times, he had pioneered covering science for a general newspaper and had won a...

Einstein was deeply shaken by the magnitude of destruction caused in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He wrote a public missive to the United Nations in which he proposed the formation of a world government. Gradually, in the years to come, he got involved in politics – agitating for disarmament and using his popularity to campaign for peace and democracy.