Teller Looks to the Future

Edward Teller is a bit too modest to admit it, but he probably has been America’s most influential defense scientist ever since World War II ended forty years ago. What he doesn’t mind telling you is that he has a clear vision of where the world should be forty years from now and what armaments the U.S. needs to get us there.

The Budapest-born physicist, who turned 77 on January 15, helped build the first fission bomb, led the development of the thermonuclear fusion bomb, and founded the lab that designed most of America’s postwar nuclear weapons. He’s now a senior research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

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Edward Teller is a bit too modest to admit it, but he probably has been America’s most influential defense scientist ever since World War II ended forty years ago. What he doesn’t mind telling you is that he has a clear vision of where the world should be forty years from now and what armaments the U.S. needs to get us there.

The Budapest-born physicist, who turned 77 on January 15, helped build the first fission bomb, led the development of the thermonuclear fusion bomb, and founded the lab that designed most of America’s postwar nuclear weapons. He’s now a senior research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.