H-Bomb Creator Dies At 95

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 3:17 pm

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<html><body>It’s a very sad day when the man who created one of the most devastating weapons not used in war passes on. Edward Teller, “father of the H-bomb”, died Tuesday 95 years young. A little on Teller’s history:<blockquote>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…

…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.</blockquote>Spotted at <A HREF=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _teller_dc target=_blank>Yahoo! News</A>.</body></html>

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 3:20 pm

There's a roofer guy I know who was at an H-bomb test way back and the worst part was the sound. In his own words "The sound...it was something else. It was the most godawful thing I ever heard."

sztupy · Post by **sztupy** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 6:52 pm

yep... Teller Ede was born in Hungary. First he emigrated to Germany, then he moved to the USA. He took part in the Manhattan-project, creating the first-atomic bomb, and after it the H-bomb... hew wrote a lot of theories, and it is possible that without huim, there won't be any atomic power plants... and no Fallout...

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Sep 10, 2003 6:56 pm

Wow, a new moral choice has to be made :
Nuclear menace, or Fallout game? :shock:

DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k · Post by **DJ SlamÃƒÂ¡k** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 12:44 am

FALLOUT GAME!

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:25 am

who'd win in a three way free for all...

oppenheimer

teller

or

goddard.

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 5:41 am

Killzig wrote:who'd win in a three way free for all...

oppenheimer

teller

or

goddard.

Dunno, but I'm pretty sure Leni Reifenstahl would want to film it.

Oh wait, she's dead now, too...

(Died Monday at the age of 101, for those of you that missed it.)

OTB

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:53 am

Damn I thought that cunt died in a helicopter crash years ago... wtf took so long?

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:20 am

She was injured in a copter crash years ago, but the reports of her death were greatly exagerated.

As to what took so long...Mengele let her in some gnarly ass Nazi secrets of immortality. They got them from Ark of the Covenant while poking around Egypt back in the '30s. The ritual involved the Holy Grail, a bucket full of Listerine, two enema bags, three virgin slave girls...oh, and a wine-sodden merkin.

(I want Spielberg to die horribly, btw.)

OTB

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 3:21 pm

Where was Indiana Jones to stop Leni?

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 10:42 pm

You didn't like indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark? I should ban you for that.