If Einstein were alive today, he would likely be baffled—and horrified—by the "entertainment" derived from his own work. Video games like Fallout or superhero movies use "nuclear annihilation" as a backdrop for fun. Einstein’s personal lifestyle was a rejection of such frivolity.
: He compares world events to a "ghostly tragicomedy" where the actors decide the life or death of nations while the public remains "half frightened, half indifferent". albert einstein the menace of mass destruction full speech
Einstein felt a profound sense of responsibility for the atomic age. Though he did not work on the Manhattan Project directly, his 1939 letter to President Roosevelt had urged the U.S. to begin nuclear research to beat Nazi Germany to the bomb. If Einstein were alive today, he would likely