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Edward Teller: Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
pigrabbitbear writes "Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them bigger, smaller, faster, used in ways that no one had thought of before or since, and always more of them. He suffered no fools, and though he would be more vilified than any other American scientist in the 20th century, he always dismissed his critics as lacking in common sense or patriotism. Amid Cold War paranoia and fears of the Soviet nuclear program, the stakes were simply too high: for the free world, building the most powerful weapon in history was a matter of life and horrible death."
Teller destroyed the career of Robert Oppenheimer for no damn good reason, after which his own graduate students shunned him.
I have no interest in anything to do about him.
A) Oppenheimer was a Communist and we were fighting the communists. B) Oppenheimer tried to get the atomic bomb into civilian control whereas Teller pushed for air force (IE military) control. Either A or B above is more than enough reason for his career to have been destroyed. Just imagine if nuclear weapons were in the hands of a civilian group - I for one can't see their non-use since WW2 going down in frequency.
In what way you can disarm Iran, with peaceful mean?
Perhaps my dislike of the Mideast didn't quite come through clearly by citing the region as "the degenerate cease-pool of Humanity since the Arab scientific revolution ended - several thousand years ago" - why on Earth does it need to be peaceful? Fight fire with fire, nuke the bastards until all the "holy land" is a glass parking lot and sleep easy at night knowing the Human race improved significantly.