Since the First World War, Einstein was busy with politics. Einstein shared with others his belief that war ruins human lives, which he showed to the people around him. He always supported civil disobedience, and consequently refused to serve in the German army. His colleagues didn't have any respect for his way of thinking in politics. After the war, Einstein wanted to rebuild international contact. This decision did not make him very popular either. After a while, people set up an anti-Einstein clan, and a book entitled: "100 Authors against Einstein" was published. His reaction to this was: 'If I am incorrect, 1 author would have been enough.' When Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933, Einstein moved to the United States, and never returned to Germany.
Einstein feared that his German ex-colleagues would build an atomic bomb, and he encouraged the United States Government to develop its own nuclear device at the same time. He warned America of the possibility of a nuclear war,
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