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On Thursday 11 September 2003 11:28, tiziano wrote: >E' stato il padre della bomba H e dello "scudo stellare" di >Reagan, progetto che era rimasto bloccato ma che >Bush ha prontamente riattivato. Era, a mio avviso, uno degli >uomini peggiori del mondo e sicuramente il peggiore degli >"scienziati". >Di lui il rettore della University of California, Richard C. >Atkinson, ha detto che "e' stato uno delle menti >scientifiche piu' influenti del 20esimo secolo, e ha dato un >contributo fondamentale alla sicurezza della nostra nazione >e alla pace nel mondo". Sua figlia ha ricevuto in sua vece, >il 23 luglio, la "Medaglia della Liberta'", direttamente >dalle mani del presidente Bush. > >---- > >By Andrea Orr > >STANFORD, Calif. (Reuters) - Edward Teller, a pioneer in >molecular physics dubbed the "father of the H-bomb" for his >role in the early development of nuclear weapons, died on >Tuesday, a Stanford University spokeswoman said. He was 95. > >Elaine Ray, a spokeswoman for the Stanford University news >service, said Teller had suffered a stroke earlier this week >and died at his home on the university campus on Tuesday. > >A naturalized U.S. citizen born in Hungary, Teller was a key >member of a group of top scientists who fled Hitler's >Germany and ended up working on the Manhattan Project, the >secret program that developed the atomic bomb. > >After the war, Teller pressed the case for a continued >strong national defense, persuading President Harry Truman >of the need for the far more powerful hydrogen bomb. > >The United States detonated the first H-bomb on the Pacific >atoll of Eniwetok in November 1952. It was 2,500 times more >powerful than the atomic weapons dropped on Hiroshima and >Nagasaki in 1945, which prompted Japan's surrender and >brought World War II to a close. > >"It wasn't a choice. Nuclear energy existed," Teller told a >newspaper interviewer shortly before his 80th birthday. "We >would have found it no matter what we did. It's sheer >arrogance to say we created the bomb." > >Earlier in his career Teller also taught physics and helped >set up a graduate department in applied sciences at the >University of California. > >"Edward Teller was one of the world's leading scientific >minds of the 20th century, and he made a major contribution >to the security of our nation and world peace," University >of California President Richard C. Atkinson said in a >statement. > >At the time of his death, Teller was a senior research >fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, specializing >in defense and energy policy. > >Although he had retired from his post as director emeritus >of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a major U.S. >nuclear weapons labs, he continued up until his death to >come into his office there, about an hour away from his >home, three or four times a week, a spokeswoman for the lab >said. > >Born in Budapest in 1908, Teller completed his Ph.D. in >physics under Werner Heisenberg in 1930 at the University of >Leipzig and did post-graduate work in Copenhagen with >pioneering Danish nuclear physicist Niels Bohr. > >Teller was director of the Livermore lab from 1958 to 1960 >and professor of physics at the University of California >from that time until his retirement in 1975. > >The H-bomb, never used in warfare, was the linchpin of the >"MAD" (mutually assured destruction) defense doctrine that >kept the United States and Soviet Union at bay during the >Cold War. > >Teller said he regretted Truman's decision to drop the >A-bomb on Japanese cities, saying he felt the weapon should >have been tried first in a demonstration in hopes Japan's >leaders would have been impressed enough to end the war. > >Considered too hawkish by many of his colleagues, Teller >argued that the absence of defense can bring disastrous >results, citing Hitler's takeover of Hungary as evidence. > >He came under fire in the 1980s when he helped convince >President Ronald Reagan the United States should spend >billions of dollars on a space-based defense umbrella that >came to be know as "Star Wars." > >Critics said the system, based partly on laser-equipped >satellites designed to shoot down enemy missiles, was >unfeasible and too expensive. Teller won the day, but the >ambitious defense umbrella remains a work in progress. > >Teller is survived by a son and a daughter, four >grandchildren and one great grandchild. > >_______________________________________________ >www.e-laser.org >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ciao pwd9148 _______________________________________________ www.e-laser.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
