Mau-Mauing Dr. Teller

Dr. Edward Teller’s home in the calmer suburban reaches of the Berkeley hills is distinguished from its neighbors chiefly by a high chain-link fence and stout iron gates with heavy locks. The famous nuclear physicist erected these barricades last fall after the Red Family “political commune” and assorted street-people marched on his house to strike a blow against the Bomb.

Up the hill they came from the campus, all hair and rebel banners and funky hats, like so many extras from A Tale of Two Cities (1934), crying “Screw you, Dr. Strangelove!” There were threats of arson. Police intervention. Dispersal. It was not much of a show by Berkeley standards. Just part of the larger pattern of the mau-mauing of Dr. Edward Teller.

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Dr. Edward Teller’s home in the calmer suburban reaches of the Berkeley hills is distinguished from its neighbors chiefly by a high chain-link fence and stout iron gates with heavy locks. The famous nuclear physicist erected these barricades last fall after the Red Family “political commune” and assorted street-people marched on his house to strike a blow against the Bomb.

Up the hill they came from the campus, all hair and rebel banners and funky hats, like so many extras from A Tale of Two Cities (1934), crying “Screw you, Dr. Strangelove!” There were threats of arson. Police intervention. Dispersal. It was not much of a show by Berkeley standards. Just part of the larger pattern of the mau-mauing of Dr. Edward Teller.