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The atomic peacemaker

Yaron Ezrahi1

BOOK REVIEWEDEinstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

by David E. Rowe, Robert Schulmann
Princeton University Press: 2007. 560 pp. $29.95, £18.95

As a German Jew who rose to be the most celebrated scientist since Newton, a pacifist triggered by the rise of Hitler to recommend the development of the atomic bomb, a cosmopolite driven by the fate of his people to support a Jewish nation state, or as an émigré to America who supported socialist ideas in the time of McCarthyism, Einstein was often at the centre of clashing ideologies. A solitary individual who became trapped by the limelight of the world stage, Einstein was reluctantly forced to become an activist.