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Einstein - Peace Now!: Visions and Ideas
Reiner Braun (Editor), David Krieger (Editor)
ISBN: 978-3-527-40604-3
Hardcover
313 pages
October 2005
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Einstein's Importance Today (Reiner Braun and David Krieger).

Opening.

Introduction (Mikhail Gorbachev).

How  Einstein Became a Politician (Jürgen Renn).

 Part 1: Remembering Einstein.

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).

Part 2: Paths to Nuclear Weapon Free World.

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).

Part 3: Striving for Peace.

Thoughts on Conflic Resolution in the Tradition of Ablert 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).

Part 4: Finding Peace in the Middle East.

Peace in the Middle East: A Global Challenge and a Human Imperative (Hanan Ashrawi).

Einstein's Legacy (Felicia Langer).

Part 5: The Responsibility of Scientists.

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 Dreams—a Scientific and Political Vision for our Future (Interview with Abhay Ashtekar conducted by Ekkehard Sieker).

Part 6: Appendix.

What Life Means to Einstein—An Interview by George Syvestern 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.

Acknowledgements.