In article ,
Barnaby Finch wrote:

On 6/15/04 9:14 AM, in article
t, "Carey Sublette"
wrote:

It is interesting reading this accounts of his relationship with
Oppenheimer, and his involvement with the security hearings (see not only
his Memoirs, but an much earlier article "Seven Hours of Reminiscences" in
Los Alamos Science, Winter/Spring 1983) in which he entirely omits mention
of his documented collaboration with the FBI, and which contradicts his
accounts of his testimony in the hearing.

It may be the case that Teller will be remembered not as an outstanding
physicist (was he?), but as a government lackey. His betrayal of Oppenheimer
in 1954, while alienating him from the physics community, endeared him to
certain powerful anti-communists in high places, like Strauss. His high
profile seems to stem a great deal from his robust and hawkish support of
dubious nuclear initiatives like Star Wars and Plowshare - read "The
Firecracker Boys".

Barnaby

Okay, boys, this has damn little to do with space history (which has
never stopped us on s.s.h. before . . .) but, yes, Teller was an
outstanding physicist. He was also very proud and jealous of his own
reputation and standing among the physics community, very
anti-communist, and very status-seeking. His high profile is a result
of many things, not just hawkishness. See, e.g., Rhodes' "The Making of
the Atomic Bomb" and "Dark Sun".

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Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
Reformed Aerospace Engineer
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