Edward Teller

(1908-2003)

Father of the hydrogen bomb

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Websites

Hoover Institution
www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/teller.html
Edward Teller's home page at the Hoover Institution.

The National Atomic Museum
www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/index.cfm
A virtual tour of the National Atomic Museum. The museum tells the story of the nuclear age and the ongoing developments in nuclear science.

Race for the Super Bomb
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/index.html
Learn about the major players and occurrences that led to the development of the hydrogen bomb by searching the People and Events database.

Star Wars
Article on the US Star Wars project, designed to protect the nation from inter-continental ballistic missiles.

Einstein's Forgotten Legacy – The Pugwash Conferences
Pugwash is an organisation devoted to bringing ethics to science. It has been a major player in encouraging world peace. It has even been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Pugwash remain relatively anonymous.

Science, Social Responsibility and the Atom Bomb
Scientists were mobilised like soldiers in the US campaign to build the atom bomb. This is the story of one of those recruited scientists, Joseph Rotblat, and his endeavours to be an ethical scientist.

Books

	Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Willson Talley (Perseus Books, 2002) An appreciation of the basic ideas and discoveries of physics, communicated with enthusiastic narrative and uncomplicated mathematics. Edward Teller is assisted by his daughter, Wendy Teller, a computer scientist, and Wilson Talley, a professor of applied science. Get this book
	The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Simon & Schuster, 1998) The story of how the atomic bomb was developed, from the beginning-of-the-century discovery of the energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Get this book
	Memoirs: A twentieth century journey in science and politics by Edward Teller and Judith Shoolery (Perseus Books, 2002) Born in Hungary, Teller witnessed the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism, two world wars, the McCarthy era and the changing face of science. Get this book

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