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 had 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.

The original edition of One World or None sold 100,000 copies and was a New York Times bestseller. Today, with the nuclear issue front and center once more, the book is as timely as ever.

Contributors:

H.H. Arnold
Niels Bohr
Arthur H. Compton
E.U. Condon
Albert Einstein
The Federation of American (Atomic) Scientists
Irving Langmuir
Walter Lippmann
Philip Morrison
J.R. Oppenheimer
Richard Rhodes
Louis N. Ridenour
Frederick Seitz and Hans Bethe
Harlow Shapley
Leo Szilard
Harold Urey

Eugene P. Wigner
Gale Young