I agree with your assessment of Al's statement, given it's time in history. When he made that statement I was in the midst of practicing duck and cover in school and at home. The whole world was paranoid. I think we realized that we finally had the power to exterminate ourselves. I'm just glad he was wrong on this point.
On Aug 28, 10:27 am, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/28/2010 11:40 AM, gruff wrote: > > > "... On Aug 28, 8:11 am, Ash<[email protected]> wrote: ..." > > >> "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World > >> War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - A. Einstein > > I could not let this thought pass without comment. > > > Though Al was a genius, he was not infallible. Yet this offering of > > his is understandable given the man discovered the core of nuclear > > power and lived to see nuclear weapons used against human beings. > > Fortunately it has been the only such occurrence in our history and it > > is likely to be the last (barring nut job radicals getting their hands > > on one of the few that are left.) > > > In light of the latter, I consider Pakistan to be the most dangerous > > nation on earth since they have a highly unstable and corrupt > > government and around 80 nukes. > > Also of note is the context, my source places this quote at 1947 [1], > and according to one timeline of the cold war [2] this was two years > after the Yalta Conference (cold war begins?), we (the US) dropped the > bomb in 1945, and in 1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech. I > think his reasoning was very relevant to the events of that time, and > meant to serve as a cautionary tale in few words. > > 1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war#Subsequent_world_wars > 2.http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm > > Caveat emptor, this was initially a two minute examination for my own > curiosity.
