Einstein-- peace now! : visions and ideas / edited by Reiner Braun and David Krieger. - Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2005. - vii, 305 p. ; 22 cm. - History of knowledge .

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Einstein's importance today / Reiner Braun and David Krieger -- Introduction / Mikhail Gorbachev -- How Einstein became a politician / Jürgen Renn -- World without war : a tribute to Einstein's quest for world peace / Joseph Rotblat -- 1905 was his great year : interview with Hans Bethe / Dieter Hoffmann -- Albert Einstein : a few personal reflections / Walter Kohn -- About Albert Einstein / Vitaly L. Ginzburg -- Einstein, man of peace / David Krieger -- The future of nuclear weapons in Europe / Jack Steinberger -- Einstein, peace and nonproliferation : a Latin American perspective / Ana María Cetto and Luis de la Peña -- From nucleus to nuclear targeting and nuclear proliferation / Alla Yaroshinskaya -- Thoughts on conflict resolution in the tradition of Albert Einstein / Oscar Arias Sanchez -- The future of our world / Ahmed Zewail -- Einstein and war resistance / Eva Isaksson -- The military mentality / John Stachel -- The role of civil society in disarmament issues : realism vs. idealism? / Jody Williams -- Rapid global climate change : a self-made imminent threat for entire mankind / Hartmut Grassl -- Peace in the Middle East : a global challenge and a human imperative / Hanan Ashrawi -- Einstein's legacy / Felicia Langer -- Remembering Einstein : science, ethics and peace / Ronald McCoy -- To what end? changing ethics? / Manfred Eigen -- The role of science and technology in the quest for a world at peace / Jerome Karle -- Science and society : some reflections / Jean Maria Lehn -- Technology, tolerance and terror / John C. Polanyi -- Einstein's heirs : Szilard and Sakharov / Dudley Herschbach -- Making it happen / Jakob von Uexküll -- Einstein's dream : a scientific and political vision for our future / interview with Abhay Ashtekar conducted by Ekkehard Sieker -- What life means to Einstein / an interview by George Sylvester Viereck -- Appeal to the Europeans -- The Russell-Einstein manifesto -- An appeal to stop the spread of nuclear weapons -- Appeal : end the nuclear weapons threat to humanity! -- U.S. Nobel laureates object to preventive attack on Iraq -- Appeal to support an international Einstein year.

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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 --Political and social views.


Peace.
Pacifisme.
Politieke theorieën.
Vredesvraagstuk.

JZ5538 / .E37 2005

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