One World Or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb

In 1946, just months after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the scientists who has 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.''