In 1945, the world was plunged into the reality of an Atomic Age. This reality couldn't be ignored as atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August. The world woke up to a new age. A terrifying one where the fires from hell could rain down from the sky.
Let's make one thing clear before continuing. Albert Einstein was a globalist. Not in the sense of political, corporate, or centuries old agenda. But from a scientific perspective, he saw the doom of mankind in the form of an atomic bomb and increasingly advancing technology. As smart as he was, in this he was very naive in the global sphere of control and influence.
It is also ironic that the one thing Albert Einstein feared the most he pushed America into creating. On August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt.
Einstein drafted his famous letter with the help of the Hungarian émigré physicist Leo Szilard, one of a number of European scientists who had fled to the United States in the 1930s to escape Nazi and Fascist repression. Szilard was among the most vocal of those advocating a program to develop bombs based on recent findings in nuclear physics and chemistry. Those like Szilard and fellow Hungarian refugee physicists Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner regarded it as their responsibility to alert Americans to the possibility that German scientists might win the race to build an atomic bomb and to warn that Hitler would be more than willing to resort to such a weapon.
United States Department of Energy: The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb
An excerpt from the Albert Einstein's letter reads:
In the course of the last four months it has been made probable – through the work of Joliot in France as well as Fermi and Szilard in America – that it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future.
This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable – though much less certain – that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory.
Wikipedia: Albert Eistein to Franklin D. Roosevelt - August 2, 1939
What happened as a result of the letter? Roosevelt decided that action must be taken.
The Advisory Committee on Uranium was created in an effort by the US to develop an atomic bomb. This was later superseded by the National Defense Research Committee in 1940 and then by the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1941.
But serious attempts to develop the atomic bomb didn't occur until 1942 with the launch of the Manhattan Project by the Army Corps of Engineers. Interestingly enough, Albert Einstein never passed the security check and didn't work on the project. This didn't stop him from being involved in the policies surrounding atomic and nuclear research.
In 1945 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein, was formed. This organization was concerned with global security issues resulting from accelerating technological advances. Advances that could have negative consequences for humanity, specifically in the realm of nuclear science.
In May of 1946, Albert Einstein, along with Leo Szilard, created the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS). The primary goal of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) was to warn the public of the dangers associated with the development of nuclear weapons. The lesser known vision of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) was world peace. World peace, in their eyes, was the answer. It was the only way that nuclear weapons would not be used again. World peace which would be achieved through a one world government.
On November 17, 1946, and written by Albert Einstein, the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) published a Six Point Statement. This statement was created with six truths in mind.
Atomic bombs can now be made cheaply and in large number. They will become more destructive.
There is no military defense against atomic bombs and none is to be expected.
Other nations can rediscover our secret processes by themselves.
Preparedness against atomic war is futile, and if attempted, will ruin the structure of our social order.
If war breaks out, atomic bombs will be used and they will surely destroy our civilization.
There is no solution to this problem except international control of atomic energy, and ultimately, the elimination of war.
In Albert Einstein's own words:
Instead of the 'One World' which men proclaimed a few short years ago, we have come even to the partition of existing nations. The United Nations, in which was invested the hopes of peoples throughout the world, is granted inadequate powers...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Einstein and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons (March 1979)
In 1948, Albert Einstein joined the advisory board for the United World Federalists. The ultimate goal of this organization is to establish a world government.
These organizations would later become involved in the World Committee for a World Constitutional Convention. This happened after the death of Albert Einstein. These efforts would result in an effort to create a world parliament and constitution. This would become known as the Constitution for the Federation of Earth or the Earth Constitution.
Minutes To Midnight
Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the planet. The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 10 Nobel laureates. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe caused by manmade technologies.
In 1947, the Doomsday Clock was created.
Artist Martyl Langsdor, wife to Manhattan Project physicist Alexander Langsdorf, was asked to come up with a design for the cover for the June 1947 edition of the Bulletin. She originally considered using the symbol for uranium.
But as she listened to the scientists who had worked on the Bomb, as they passionately debated the consequences of the new technology and their responsibility to inform the public, she felt their sense of urgency. So she sketched a clock to suggest that we didn’t have much time left to get atomic weapons under control.
Ultimately, lab coat-wearing scientists revealed their newest invention on their first printed version of Bulletin. This invention wasn't based in scientific research but represented a symbolic image of man's man made Armageddon. An image so simple that even a child could understand. It continues to serve as a stark reminder throughout the years. For me, it is a reminder of the irony that came from Albert Einstein's warning. And that warning ended in his greatest fear becoming a reality.
The Katanga Massacre
In Albert Einstein's letter to President Roosevelt, he mentions the Belgian Congo as being a good source of uranium.
The United States has only very poor ores of uranium in moderate quantities. There is some good ore in Canada and the former Czechoslovakia, while the most important source of uranium is Belgian Congo.
Wikipedia: Albert Eistein to Franklin D. Roosevelt - August 2, 1939
One man's words sometimes have powerful and unforeseen consequences. To make matters worse, Einstein had used his connections with the Belgian royal family and the Belgian queen mother to get access to the White House. Whether it is widely recognized or not, Belgium and the Congo was heavily involved in the events that led to the development of the atomic bomb. They also supplied the raw materials in order to make it happen.
It wasn't until 1954 that Albert Einstein expressed remorse for his involvement. Einstein ultimately confided to his old friend, Linus Pauling.
I made one great mistake in my life—when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification—the danger that the Germans would make them ...
In 1955, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto was signed by Einstein and ten other intellectuals and scientists. The manifesto was meant to highlight the danger of nuclear weapons.
In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.
We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt. The world is full of conflicts; and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between Communism and anti-Communism.
Almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but we want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings and consider yourselves only as members of a biological species which has had a remarkable history, and whose disappearance none of us can desire.
We shall try to say no single word which should appeal to one group rather than to another. All, equally, are in peril, and, if the peril is understood, there is hope that they may collectively avert it.
We have to learn to think in a new way.
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The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty.
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: Statement: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Excerpt from the video:
If you'll turn to page 22 of the [United Nations] Charter, you'll find Chapter 7. And the title of Chapter 7 is Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression. This is Chapter 7. Now Chapter 7 constitutes the war-making authority of the United Nations. The war-making authority, for example, in Article 47 of this chapter there is the following statement:
There shall be established a military subcommittee to advise and assist the Security Council on all questions relating to the maintenance of international peace and security. And the Military Staff Committee shall be responsible under the Security Council for the strategic direction of any armed forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council strategic direction."
But what does it mean?
Well, this legalistic language simply means, of course, that the Security Council of the United Nations has the authority to declare peace and to go in shooting, as was the case in Katanga. That's what it means.
In September 1961, a little known event occurred which became known as the Siege of Jadotville. In other circles, it was nicknamed the Katanga Massacre.
In June 1960, a group of Congolese seceded from Belgium controlled Congo under the peaceful leadership of President Tshombe. It was during this time that the Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was sent to the United States to request support and assistance.
July 1960 was an inopportune time for Patrice Lumumba, the barely 35-year-old prime minister of the Congo, to visit Washington, D.C. His country had become independent from Belgium only on June 30. Within days, the army had mutinied, Belgian forces had intervened without permission, a province had seceded, and the U.N. had sent in a massive peacekeeping operation. And amid the chaos, Lumumba had made a troubling appeal to the Soviet Union, suggesting that his fledgling nation might require its help. At a National Security Council meeting just days before the Congolese leader would arrive in Washington, Allen Dulles, the pipe-smoking director of the CIA, told the room that Lumumba had been “bought by the Communists” and was “a Castro or worse.
Politico: How the U.S. Issued its First Ever Order to Assassinate a Foreign Leader
On September 13, 1961, the United Nations launched its peacekeepers in Katanga under the codename Operation Morthor. The Peacekeepers comprised of regular military and some mercenary troops (some of which served in the German military during World War II).
During the course of the Siege of Jadotville, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. He has the distinction of being the first foreign leader assassinated via CIA assassination.
It was likely at this point in the discussion that the president made a fateful utterance. Robert Johnson, the official note taker for the meeting, noticed the president turn toward Dulles. Then, he recalled, “President Eisenhower said something — I can no longer remember his words — that came across to me as an order for the assassination of Lumumba.” Fifteen seconds of stunned silence followed Eisenhower’s remark, as the room digested the apparent directive. It was just one sentence, and a somewhat euphemistically phrased one at that, but Johnson would forever remember the shock he felt in that moment.
Politico: How the U.S. Issued its First Ever Order to Assassinate a Foreign Leader
In January 1963, the United Nations launched another operation called Operation Grandslam. The UN Peacekeepers ultimately defeated the forces of the State of Katanga and reintegrated the region into the Congo.
President Tshombe was forced to flee the country. The various failures of the UNOC mission during 1961, including the assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and the death toll of Operation Morthor, led elements of the UN to downplay attention to the Siege of Jadotville.
The strongest of these parties was the Congolese National Movement, the CNM, and was represented by such prominent figures as Albert Kalonji, Patrice Lumumba, and Cyrille Adoula. The CNM had a broad level of support across the entire colony and didn’t rely on any single ethnic group for the majority of its support. They favored a gradualist approach to independence.
The next most prominent group was the Alliance of Bakongo, or ABAKO, primarily representing the Bakongo people and led by Joseph Kasa-Vubu. ABAKO considered the CNM to be too moderate in their approach and advocated for the declaration of immediate independence.
The third most significant party was CANAKAT, the Confederation of Tribes of Katanga, led by Moise Tshambe. CANAKAT derived much of its support from the mineral rich southern province of Katanga.
What kind of minerals are we talking about?
The Congo’s role in creating the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was kept secret for decades, but the legacy of its involvement is still being felt today.
“The word Shinkolobwe fills me with grief and sorrow,” says Susan Williams, a historian at the UK Institute of Commonwealth Studies. “It’s not a happy word, it’s one I associate with terrible grief and suffering.”
Few people know what, or even where, Shinkolobwe is. But this small mine in the southern province of Katanga, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), played a part in one of the most violent and devastating events in history.
The Shinkolobwe mine – named after a kind of boiled apple that would leave a burn if squeezed – was the source for nearly all of the uranium used in the Manhattan Project, culminating with the construction of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945.
After the war, however, Shinkolobwe emerged as a proxy ground in the Cold War. Improved enrichment techniques made Western powers less dependent on the uranium at Shinkolobwe. But in order to curtail other nations’ nuclear ambitions, the mine had to be controlled. “Even though the US did not need the uranium at Shinkolobwe, it didn’t want the Soviet Union to get access to the mine,” explains Williams.
When the Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960, the mine was closed and the entrance filled with concrete. But Western powers wanted to ensure that any government presiding over Shinkolobwe remained friendly to their interests.
The Current Time
According the Doomsday Clock and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, we are currently sitting at 90 seconds to midnight. Their website states that we are in a time of unprecedented danger.
Listed on their website, you will read a myriad of reasons why imminent danger exists:
The war in Ukraine may enter a second horrifying year, with both sides convinced they can win.
Russia’s thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict—by accident, intention, or miscalculation—is a terrible risk. The possibility that the conflict could spin out of anyone’s control remains high.
As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, the last remaining nuclear weapons treaty between Russia and the United States, New START, stands in jeopardy.
Russia’s false accusations that Ukraine planned to use radiological dispersal devices, chemical weapons, and biological weapons take on new meaning as well.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has increased the risk of nuclear weapons use, raised the specter of biological and chemical weapons use, hamstrung the world’s response to climate change, and hampered international efforts to deal with other global concerns.
Behind the words, one can continue to see the push for globalization using propaganda and fear. Albert Einstein's idealistic scientific view and naivety turned towards a New World Order and the actions caused by his fear ultimately manifested into a unforeseeable reality.
Additional Resources
Why was the Siege of Jadotville nicknamed the Katanga Massacre? Because of stories like this.
Documentary: Der Lachende Mann
The Laughing Man: Confessions of a Murderer (1966 Subtitled)
Note: You may have to open in YouTube to get the English subtitles. There is also a transcript of the documentary in the article below.
Siegfried Müller, known as "Congo Müller," was a Nazi war criminal who became a mercenary involved in various conflicts, notably in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during the mid-20th century. His story is a dark and complex tale that spans from his involvement with the Nazi regime to his exploits in post-colonial Africa. Originally, he was an officer candidate in Nazy Germany's Wehrmacht. He became a mercenary for NATO and served as a Peacekeeper during the Massacre in Katanga. He was a ghost in that he escaped punishment for his UN sanctioned war crimes. This is what true evil looks like. It laughs.
Nazi Involvement:
During World War II, Müller was a member of the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. He was known for his association with the "Dirlewanger Brigade," a unit infamous for its brutal actions and war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war.
Post-World War II:
After the war, Müller faced accusations of war crimes, including allegations of involvement in the Holocaust and other atrocities. However, he managed to escape justice and fled to Latin America, where he joined other former Nazi soldiers and collaborators seeking refuge.
Involvement in Congo:
In the 1960s, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then known as the Republic of the Congo, was embroiled in a series of civil wars and conflicts following its struggle for independence from Belgium in 1960. During this time of instability, Congo Müller, along with other ex-Nazis and mercenaries, found an opportunity to exploit the situation.
Müller became a notorious figure in the region, offering his military expertise and services to various factions within the Congo. He often worked as a mercenary, training and leading Congolese troops and involving himself in the country's internal conflicts.
Sources
Hat Tip goes to loudproudTexan on X (formerly Twitter) for the idea behind this article. Thank you.
MIRA Safety: The Doomsday Clock: A Historical Timeline To Armageddon
The Atlantic: Designing the Doomsday Clock
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Wikipedia: Einstein–Szilard letter
United States Department of Energy: The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb
Wikipedia: World Constitutional Convention
Wikipedia: Citizens for Global Solutions
Thank you for researching and sharing this information. I remember much of what the public ‘story’ was then, and questioned portions of what we were told. Now, I reiterate that the CIA was never created to protect Americans, but the cabal and its minions. The UN also is just as evil and since the Americans have a history of rebellion, the cabal ordered it HQ’d in NYC....a stone’s throw from the Nazis infiltrating the government in DC.