“Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.”

— Albert Einstein

"Only Then Shall We Find Courage", New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946).
1940s

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