Barnaby Finch wrote:

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".



The book "Teller's War" doesn't paint a very flattering picture of him
either.

Pat