Edward Teller
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Edward Teller (academic, scientist) | |
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Born | 1908-01-15 Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 2003-09-09 (Age 95) Stanford, California, United States |
Nationality | Hungarian-American |
Member of | Center for Security Policy/National Security Advisory Council, Committee on the Present Danger/Members, PIAB, Western Goals Foundation |
Interests | Physics |
Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "the father of the hydrogen bomb". |
Career
During the Manhattan Project, Edward Teller headed a group at Los Alamos in the Theoretical Physics division. Teller was a major proponent of the hydrogen bomb.
In 1979 Teller attended the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism and spoke on "The Spectre of Nuclear Terrorism."
Later, however, he denounced the Oklahoma Bombing, stating that the official narrative would have been impossible.[citation needed]
Event Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism | 2 July 1979 | 5 July 1979 | Israel Jerusalem | The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente". |
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