Wernher Von Braun: Idealist And Visionary

Wernher von Braun. Idealist and visionary. Braun began his career in 1925 with the hopes and dreams of leading humanity to the stars. Do you know what he said when the first rocket hit London? He said that “the rocket performed perfectly, it just landed on the wrong planet.”
Enrico Fermi. Philanthropist and industrialist. In 1942, Fermi created the first self-sustaining nuclear power plant in an effort to provide clean energy for the world. Three years later in New Mexico, along with Einstein and many others, Fermi would design the plutonium fission bomb: a weapon intended to massacre millions at a time.
You start with something pure, something exciting. Then comes the mistakes; the compromises. For Braun, Fermi, Einstein, and countless more to come, the compromising factor always was, and always will be, warfare.
Seventy-one years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear power is rarely recognized as a solution to the energy crisis. Instead, it is associated with the most violent pits of Hell: warfare. The demands of warfare exhaust the scientific community and deplete its resources, as well as decimating the human population.

It is up to us to preserve the countless lives that could be lost if one man lost his temper, to stop the development of military grade weapons, and instead nurture ideas that can heal, ideas that can help the world evolve. We don’t need weapons. We don’t need bloodshed. We don’t need useless fighting or brutal violence. We don’t need to be like Batman and offer ultimatum. What we need is to heal together, to evolve together. What we need is