EDWARD TELLER - TYPESCRIPT SIGNED 07/13/1979 - HFSID 52195
Sale Price $425.00
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EDWARD TELLER
The scientist who continued to defend the use of a nuclear bomb on Japan until his death
penned his signature on this page
Typescript signed: "Edward Teller", 1p, 8½x11. Typed date of 1979 July 13. Excerpt from a
guest editorial by Teller in "Newsweek" magazine, 1976 May 17, advocating the need for
nuclear power to meet global energy demand. Edward Teller (1908-2003), often referred to
as the “Father of the Hydrogen Bomb”, was born in Hungary and educated in Germany
before fleeing the Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic
(fission) bomb, but was already looking forward to the even greater power which might be
unleashed by nuclear fusion. Teller influenced U.S. Presidents of both parties with his
advocacy of nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. Teller
made headlines in 1954 when he testified that he, personally, did not trust nuclear
physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer enough to renew his security clearance. As a result of
this hearing, Oppenheimer, another one of the pioneering scientists behind nuclear
weapons, had his United States security clearance revoked. In his memoirs, Teller observed:
"I deeply regret the deaths and injuries that resulted from the atomic bombings, but my best
explanation of why I do not regret working on weapons is a question: What if we hadn't?"
Slightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.
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