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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I get the impression from interviews that Teller thought Teller was the world's great physicist and bomb designer. Is that fair or am I mistaken?
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I think Teller thought that bomb design and physics was just a matter of getting good people together and setting them free to think big ideas. It turns out its a bit more complex than that, but it's an ideology that in some ways could sound self-deprecating.
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In Teller's mind, coming up with the H-bomb and everything else was just him doing kind of obvious things. The only time he got grabby about priority was when people wanted to give it to Ulam instead — he thought Ulam betrayed the work by not supporting it.
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I picturing him ruefully gazing at a chalkboard when he realized that a gigaton bomb would only flip a continent-sized chunk of atmosphere over like a pancake
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How about
@SteveCarell for the biopic?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Inventor of the only weapon that doesn't need to be delivered to your enemy: the "backyard bomb".
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