Volume 14, Number 8 · April 23, 1970
Theatre of Delusion
By I.F. Stone
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) now reopening in Vienna may best be seen as the latest in a series of fumbling attempts by mankind to pick up the pieces in the wake of Hiroshima. A month after that first atomic bomb dropped, Einstein said what is still the last word of wisdom on the subject, though we are as far as ever from applying it. To a UPI reporter who tracked him down in a forest cabin near Lake Saranac, Einstein said 'the only salvation for civilization and the human race' now lay in 'the creation of a world government. As long as sovereign states continue to have separate armaments and armament secrets,' he warned, 'new world wars will be inevitable.'[1]
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