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Today is the 110th birthday of Edward Teller. He's an easy Cold War villain for a lot of reasons. A bit too easily caricatured and dismissed by historians, I think, but he lent himself to that.pic.twitter.com/rt957V7Hw0
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Teller didn't endear himself to most of his fellow scientists at Los Alamos, especially after his testimony re. Oppenheimer at the 1954 hearings.
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I know. I think that he became something of a convenient scapegoat for the larger forces at work, though. Teller's testimony was not nearly as damning, or decisive, as Oppenheimer's own accounts of his failings and unreliability.pic.twitter.com/9K9mgtN18t
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(To acknowledge that Oppenheimer's wartime activities — lying to security officials, sleeping with Communist mistresses, etc. — would not accord with a 1950s vision of security and loyalty should not be taken to suggest I think the hearings were fair, appropriate, etc.)
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Love his account retelling in Trinity and Beyond.
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he. sure. did.
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He was an a’hole and jerkoff, Dr Oppenheimer was the hero and always will be
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I always felt nervous talking to him on the phone.
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Since we are still here and the Russians haven't taken over yet, Teller might have had a point. What he did to Oppenheimer wasn't cool tho.
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I remember hearing Teller speak at my high school in (I think) 1992. I thought he downplayed any increase in lethal effect of H-bombs as the number of megatons increases. E.g. the lethal effect doesn't increase, it just blows debris into the air faster / higher.
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