The Penguin Brief

Michael assured Corey that he had seen several of these kinds of theories and devices built around them that were more powerful than atomic energy. They were kept secret for a good purpose. The people developing them hoped that could use the power for positive human goals and they hoped they could keep them out of the hands of military engineers.

Of course Corey knew that hope was hopelessly naive. Ask Einstein the hapless peace activist in the midst of the nuclear horror story he had made possible with his Idea. It was a terrifyingly short few years from the theory of relativity’s development to the atom bomb being dropped on Hiroshima.