This was the day Einstein wrote a letter and did a huge mistake that he regretted throughout his life
"The war has definitely been won ... but not peace ... the world was promised to be freed from fear, but in reality, the fear has increased manifold, since the war is over."
There is hardly any person who does not know Albert Einstein's name. But one thing that everyone is hardly familiar with is that Einstein also made some mistakes in his life. However, making mistakes is proof that one of the greatest scientists was also a 'human'. Did you know that Einstein of German origin warned America against Germany itself? But he had enough arguments and reasons behind doing so.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in a Jewish family living in the city of Ulm in the then German Empire. Apart from Germany, he also became citizen in its neighboring countries, Switzerland and Austria. After his stay in Berlin from 1914 to 1932, Einstein migrated to America after sensing Hitler's hatred for Jews.
Meanwhile, Germany lit and burnt all the books written by Einstein and also put him in the list of 'enemies of the German nation' and placed a reward in the name of the person who would kill Einstein. One of the things that made Albert Einstein's name immortal among all research and intellectual works was his theory of relativity, the theory of relativity.
In fact, Einstein's letters to his son Hans Albert and sister Maya, related to God-religion, are also a subject of much discussion. But, along with all this, Albert Einstein also wrote a letter to America's President Franklin Roosevelt.
Indeed, in August, 1939, shortly before the Second World War began, Einstein signed a letter after being told by the Hungarian nuclear scientist Leo Zillard. The letter was written in the name of US President Franklin Roosevelt. In it, Roosevelt was told that Nazi Germany is building a very destructive 'new type of bomb' or possibly already have made. In it, he had advised Roosevelt to develop nuclear bombs and at the same time he warned Roosevelt that Germany might be developing nuclear bomb. Written on August 2, 1939, this letter was received by President Roosevelt on October 11.
American intelligence had also received information something similar to this, so the 'Manhattan Project' for making American atom bombs was started. The bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki city of Japan on August 6 and 9, 1945.
Six years after the letter written to Roosevelt on 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States dropped nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both Einstein and history would always regret that some of the Best Brains were also behind the foundation of this great tragedy.
This paper is considered an important factor for the beginning of the nuclear arms race in America. This letter was written by Leo Szilard on behalf of Einstein. The nuclear chain reaction was discovered by scientist Leo Szilard. However Einstein accepted full responsibility for all the consequences of this paper. Einstein considered this letter to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Einstein was greatly hurt by this incident. He wrote about this incident in a letter to a friend. While expressing regret in one of his letters written to his old friend Linus Pauling on November 16, 1954, Einstein wrote, "I made a big mistake in my life, when I asked President Roosevelt on the letter advising him to make a nuclear bomb. However, there was a justification behind it that the Germans would make it one day. "
Roosevelt said, "In view of this, we must do something immediately."
The incident of nuclear attack deeply shocked Einstein
When Albert Einstein received information about an attack of an atom bomb on Japan, he could not believe it. This was such a reality, which he was not ready to accept. He was filled with great sorrow and anguish. He was deeply shocked and muttered - "Terrible ... Very Terrible!" Einstein was so hurt that he did not comment on the incident throughout the year. Einstein later said, "If I knew that the Germans would never be able to make an atom bomb, I would never have recommend it."
'The war is won, but piece is not.' In this Einstein said:
"We helped to develop this new weapon, because we did not want that the enemies of Humans get it before us. To destroy and bring destruction beyond imagination and to make the rest of the world its slave has always been the mindset of the Nazis. We have assigned this new weapon in the hands of the American and British public, regarding them as a representative of the entire human race and the patron of peace and independence. But the guarantee of peace and independence, which was promised from the countries of the Atlantic Charter, we have not yet seen. The battle has been won… but not peace… The world was promised to be freed from fear, but in reality, since the war is over, the fear has increased manifold. The world was promised that all the problems will end one day. But most of the world is hungry, while others are enjoying more things than needed. "
In the last days of his life, Einstein signed an invocation called 'Russell-Einstein Manifesto', on April 11, 1955, along with 10 other well-known scientists. The letter urged to make mankind vulnerable to disarmament. Just 2 days later, as he was writing a speech commemorating Israel's Independence Day, his health deteriorated and he passed away on April 18 at the age of 76.
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