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Edward Teller Passes Away At 95

Posted by simoniker on from the no-more-strange-love dept.

Lord Prox writes "Edward Teller, one of the 20th Century's greats in physics, died Tuesday afternoon at his home in Stanford. He was 95." Newsforge.com also has one of the final interviews with Teller, who was "a principal architect of the hydrogen bomb, [and] passionate advocate of nuclear power and antimissile defense."

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  1. Check out "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    By Richard Rhoads.

    It's a fantastic book about the creation of the Atomic Bomb -- from when scientists first realized the possibility, through the manhatten project. It's set against the backdrop of political events of the first half of the century and provides a fascinating account of the entire experience, including the actions of Edward Teller.

    I'd highly recommend it.

  2. Re:Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie by afidel · · Score: 4, Informative

    The amazing thing wasn't that some ships sank, it was that of the 100+ ships in the bay that ONLY 13 sank in TWO detonation! (the first one ABLE was above ground and sunk 5 ships, the second underwater test BAKER sunk 8). Btw the scrap ships used for the test would have qualified as the world's 8th largest navy if they had been owned by another country and the support staff occupied another 115 vessels.

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  3. Re:Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hiroshima was in around 15 kilotons, not "barely a kiloton".

  4. Re:It should also be said.. by hoofie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Extract from Times Obituary :

    "He was later to say that, unlike Oppenheimer, he was opposed to the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, and would have preferred a demonstration of the new weapon's power to Japanese scientists. Nevertheless, in his memoirs, published in 2001, Teller admitted, while continuing to believe that Oppenheimer's opposition to the H-bomb was wrong, that the hearings had been a mistake, and that he himself had been unwise to testify."
  5. Re:Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie by atomicarchive · · Score: 4, Informative

    The ABLE bomb was dropped off target, a tail fin on the bomb failed. That is why so few ships were sunk. Although the BAKER test did sink more ships, the water plume that was created was very radioactive and if the ships had been manned, there would have been serious radiation issues for the crew. For more information : Operation Crossroads or buy the Atomic Archive CD-ROM