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This archive was created in honor of John A. Simpson, one of the Bulletin’s principal founders and a longtime member of its Board of Sponsors. This searchable archive provides exclusive online access to original interviews and commentary by luminaries like Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ruth Adams, John F. Kennedy, Stephen Hawking, Jennifer Doudna, Fiona Hill, William J. Perry, Mikhail Gorbachev and multiple Nobel laureates.
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By Albert Einstein, et al.
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