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Edward Teller: Destroyer of Worlds
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Length:
69 minutes
Released:
Jan 1, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb", the force behind Reagan's Star Wars initiative, and the model for "Dr. Strangelove" was a Hungarian math prodigy who fled Hitler's Germany. In Amerlica, he became one of the scientific minds behind the creation of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, in a race against the Nazi war machine. Teller's story is told here in his own voice, and by many of the other leading scientists from the dawn of the nuclear age.
Released:
Jan 1, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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