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How did Einstein react to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
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Solution
Einstein was deeply shaken by the disaster in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He wrote a public missive to the United. He proposed the formation of a world government to stop the nuclear weapons.
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