Doctor Teller’s Strange Loves, from the Hydrogen Bomb to Thorium Energy

The Big Picture - ritholtz.com ^ | March 7, 2012 | Barry Ritholtz

[Praxeologue]

Half a century later, the left's spin continues.

[U-238]

Slightly off topic, I recieved an e-mail from Peter Kuran that he is working on a documentary of the neutron bomb.

[doorgunner69]

Any info on that documentary?

[U-238]

That it is in production and should be coming out soon.Its going to be very good.

[stormhill]

The idea of peace through strength is reflected also in the book by John Lott More Guns, Less Crime. It's simply logical you don't attack someone who's prepared and alert.

Seems paradoxical that peace activists are the real warmongers. Curious...

[doorgunner69]

Yes, I do not think there is any question that the Soviets would not have been able to develop the H-bomb. From what I have read, Sakharov had it dialed in as far as theory, and did it without the spy net used for the fission bomb.

Teller may have gotten a bit loony later in life, but he was right in the need to develop the bomb. A world with the 1950's Soviets with the bomb and us without would not gave been to secure.

[U-238]

Teller testified against Oppenheimer at his at Oppenheimer’s AEC security clearance hearing.

[doorgunner69]

Post a note when it comes out, if you would.

[U-238]

I will. You will be the first to know.

[U-238]

Teller testified against Oppenheimer at his at Oppenheimer’s AEC security clearance hearing.

Teller testified against Oppenheimer at Oppenheimer's AEC security clearance hearing.

[Praxeologue]

http://www.michaelkeller.com/news/news588.htm

[U-238]

Oppenheimer was constantly followed by Army security. General Groves insisted that he remained on the project because he was too important to be ousted over this suspicious behavior

[W. W. SMITH]

thorium-based nuclear fuel, can’t blow up, can’t melt down, is more plentiful than uranium, doesn’t need to be enriched before using, less expensive than current power plants and very nearly idiot proof, even an eco freak could do it.

[Praxeologue]

Perversely, the Left opposes thorium energy research because a side benefit permits the processing of nuclear waste from conventional nuclear plants. This removes the disposal issue from the Left’s quiver.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Praxeologue]

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[SgtHooper]

LOL!!

[rlmorel]

I have read a bit about this, and I am 100% convinced he was, at the very LEAST, a Communist sympathizer, and therefore, a security risk.

It was a quandary. He WAS the right person for the job. Flawed, but filled the piece of the puzzle.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kennard.

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[Charles Martel]

Teller’s bomb was perhaps the only invention designed to make its own use obsolete.

I'm pretty sure this was said of the machine gun, before WWI.