Before the diplomatic conference convened in 1932, Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of his age, proffered a warning that fell on deaf ears. Technology advances, he cautioned, “could have made human life carefree and happy if the development of the organizing power of man had been able to keep step with his technical advances.”35 Instead, “the hardly bought achievements of the machine age in the hands of our generation are as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a three-year-old child.” The conference in Geneva ended in failure, and before the end of the decade, that failure had
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