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United Nations 151 East 67th Street New York 21 N.Y. REGENT 7-5700

May 26, 1947

Dr. Albert Einstein Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists Room 28, 90 Nassau Street Princeton, N.J.

Dear Dr. Einstein,

I received your appeal for money for the Emergency Committee and I am enclosing a check for $10.00. I am very happy to be able to contribute to an educational fund to enable people to understand atomic energy and its social and economic implications. The regretable situation created by the use of the newly released atomic energy for military purposes requires more than ever, the promotion of free scientific intercourse between all nations.

Two dangerous concepts have been strengthened in peoples minds as a result of recent atomic energy developments and it is imperative that these be eradicated. First of all, people must not be frightened off from on scientific research because of the possibility of military application. It was tradgicially significant that many a scientist, who during the last war, worked on atomic energy, wished that their experiments might fail. It must be demonstrated that there is no such thing as bad or dangerous discoveries, bad or dangerous science. There are only bad and dangerous people who use science for evil purposes.

Moreover, the idea must be uprooted that wars are necessary for the making of large discoveries. In fact, only as long as the use of chain reaction in the war was definitely assertained, the government's interest in the wrok was purely casual. No international cooperation in the field of atomic energy can be sucessful unless it will substantially contribute to making atomic science as great a power in peace as it was in war.