Cutchogue - A Pacifist Memento
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein Einstein must have been really besorgt when he said that. Certainly, back in 1939, he was preoccupied with the situation in Europe, where - he knew - Germans were working on a new lethal device, the atomic bomb. In Cutchogue he wrote letters to the President Roosevelt who, taking Einstein's words seriously, decided to launch what is known as the Manhattan Project *. What was Einstein doing in Cutchogue though? He was on vacation, sailing on the Tinef; but he was a sailor who couldn't swim. You might read more in this article about Einstein in Cutchogue. *I don't need to explain more about the Manhattan Project, but today (August 9th) I want to give a personal contribution: I have been to many places related to WWII: Hiroshima, some concentration camps in Europe, the lab (and now Muse...