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.
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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I agree, Oppenheimer did himself no favors there either.
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