Edward Teller

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Person.png Edward Teller  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(academic, scientist)
Edward Teller.jpg
Born1908-01-15
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died2003-09-09 (Age 95)
Stanford, California, United States
NationalityHungarian-American
Member ofCenter for Security Policy/National Security Advisory Council, Committee on the Present Danger/Members, PIAB, Western Goals Foundation
InterestsPhysics
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

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism2 July 19795 July 1979Israel
Jerusalem
The birthplace of the "War on Terror" doctrine, "a major international forum for the movement against détente".
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