English transcript

They told me the sun was going to burn out in four and a half billion years. I took that

pretty philosophically. I mean, I could handle that. And now you've got nine countries, including,

you know, the guy in North Korea. I mean, and there will be something happen. And we

worried enormously about it when there were two. And we had perfectly, we had really pretty

sane leaders in Kennedy and Khrushchev. You know, I mean, you were not dealing with unstable

people or anything like that. And, you know, the ships turned around. But people were hiding

under their desks with two. I mean, just think how you feel with North Korea having

it and Iran wanting to get it. I mean, it is, and I don't have an answer for that.

I mean, we did the right thing in 1938 or 1939. Go look at, it's all over the internet,

the most important letter ever written. And Leo Szilard could not get the message to,

he was a famous nuclear physicist, terrific one, very funny too. And he couldn't get

the message to Roosevelt. But he knew if Einstein signed the letter that it would get there.

And he finally got Einstein to sign the letter. And that letter was a month before the Germans

started rolling into Poland. And I don't think Roosevelt understood U-235 any better

than I do. I mean, you know, but he knew if Einstein signed it he better do something.

And the funny thing is, of course, he was doing it because he was worried about the

Germans getting it and it was actually used on the Japanese. But we haven't learned to

live with it.