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100	1		_aGoodchild, Peter. _9161884
245	1	0	_aEdward Teller : _bthe real Dr. Strangelove / _cPeter Goodchild.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _cc2004.
300			_axxv, 469 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [446]-452) and index.
505	0		_aWar, Revolution, Peace and Maths -- In the Company of Gods -- Twilight of a Golden Age -- America the Beautiful -- The Hungarian Conspiracy -- Skirmishes -- Maverick on the Mesa -- The Little Toe of the Ghost -- The Legacy of Hiroshima -- Wilderness Years -- The Taking of Washington -- Unholy Alliances -- A 'Simple, Great and Stupid' Mistake -- Technically So Sweet -- Mike -- 'Soled' to the Californians -- Bravo -- The Hearing -- Aftermath -- 'Almost like Ivory Soap' -- A Matter of Detection -- Plowshare -- Confounding Camelot -- Struggling Uphill -- Bringing up the Props -- Excalibur -- Reykjavik -- Brilliant Pebbles -- The New Physics: the Path that Led to Quantum Mechanics -- Basic Information on the History of Fission -- The Sketch for the 'Super' that Evolved During the Berkeley Conference, Summer 1942.
520			_aOne Nobel Prize-winning physicist called Edward Teller, "A great man of vast imagination...[one of the] most thoughtful statesmen of science." Another called him, "A danger to all that is important... It would have been a better world without [him]." That both opinions about Teller were commonly held and equally true is one of the enduring mysteries about the man dubbed "the father of the H-bomb." In the story of Teller's life and career, told here in greater depth and detail than ever before, Peter Goodchild unravels the complex web of harsh early experiences, character flaws, and personal and professional frustrations that lay behind the paradox of "the real Dr. Strangelove." Goodchild's biography draws on interviews with more than fifty of Teller's colleagues and friends. Their voices echo through the book, expressing admiration and contempt, affection and hatred, as we observe Teller's involvement in every stage of building the atomic bomb, and his subsequent pursuit of causes that drew the world deeper into the Cold War-alienating many of his scientific colleagues even as he provided the intellectual lead for politicians, the military, and presidents as they shaped Western policy. Goodchild interviewed Teller himself at the end of his life, and what emerges from this interview, as well as from Teller's Memoirs and recently unearthed correspondence, is a clearer view of the contradictions and controversies that riddled the man's life. Most of all, though, this absorbing biography rescues Edward Teller from the caricatures that have served to describe him until now. In their place, Goodchild shows us one of the most powerful scientists of the twentieth century in all his enigmatic humanity.
600	1	0	_aTeller, Edward, _d1908- _9161885
650		0	_aPhysicists _zUnited States _vBiography. _9161886
650		0	_aAtomic bomb _zUnited States _xHistory. _9161887
852			_9p29.95 _y02-13-2005
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905			_aPeter Goodchild is an award-winning television producer and the former head of both Science and Features and Drama at the BBC. His production of Oppenheimer won a British Academy Award and spawned an acclaimed biography
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