Günther Anders was born in Breslau in 1902. He completed his doctorate under Edmund Husserl in 1923 and worked in philosophy, journalism and literature in Berlin and Paris. He emigrated to the United States in 1936 with his first wife, Hannah Arendt, and took on a series of odd jobs, including factory work, which later inspired his major philosophical work, The Obsolescence of the Human. A co-founder of the international anti-nuclear movement, he visited Hiroshima in 1958 and in 1959 began a correspondence with Claude Eatherly, one of the Hiroshima pilots. He died in Vienna in 1992.