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<p>One of my Hoover colleagues, John Bunzel, who was a close friend of Edward Teller's, once asked the eminent physicist: "Do you know the difference between God and yourself? You don't? Well, God doesn't want to be Edward Teller."</p> <p>The story was told at a commemoration last week dedicated to the Hungarian-born world-renowned nuclear physicist who died Sept. 9 at age 94. It was that kind of a memorial celebration, irreverent and admiring of the father of the hydrogen bomb, held at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in northern California, where Teller, its founder, held sway for many years. Less than two months before his death, President Bush awarded him the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.</p>

<p>When Edward Teller died last week at age 95, newspapers catalogued milestones in the prominent career of the physicist and public servant who gave us the H-bomb. The Washington Post called Teller "a man of intellect who was deeply involved for decades in the great public issues of his day."</p>

You Say You Want A Revolution... In the Middle East, unlike in the U.S.S.R., young rebels are the enemies of the West. Bin Laden’s picture is the forbidden icon Edward Teller and Paul McCartney didn’t know each other, but maybe they should have. The nuclear physicist and father of the H-bomb, who died last week at 95, was the model for Dr. Strangelove. A fierce anti-communist, his advice to Ronald Reagan to launch Star Wars is credited by some conservative analysts with sweeping the Soviet Union into the dustbin of history. AND THE CONNECTION between Teller and the Beatles would...

AMERICAN HEROES aren’t always the ones who have the bulging muscles or steely nerves required to operate the increasingly complex and powerful weaponry that helps deter our enemies. They also are the ones who conceive and make possible those at once marvelous and horrible devices. One such hero was Dr. Edward Teller, who died Tuesday at the age of 95. Teller was a native Hungarian who fled fascist Hungary and Nazi Germany in the 1930s. In the 1940s he joined the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. With Teller at Los Alamos was a Communist sympathizer named Ted Hall....

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; Edward Teller, a member of the Manhattan Project that created the first atomic bomb and who later emerged as the foremost champion of the vastly more destructive hydrogen bomb, has died. He was 95.</p> <p>Mr. Teller, dubbed the "father of the H-bomb" and a key advocate of the antimissile shield known as "Star Wars," died Tuesday at his home on the Stanford University campus.</p>

<p>Edward Teller, the man who played a key role in U.S. defense and energy policies for more than half a century and was dubbed the "Father of the H-bomb" for his enthusiastic pursuit of the powerful weapon, died Tuesday, a spokesman for Lawrence Livermore Laboratory confirmed. He was 95.</p>

EDITOR'S NOTE: Today, 95-year-old physicist Edward Teller will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, described by the White House as "the nation's highest civil honor." Selecting Teller as one of this year's ten medal winners takes courage — the man is reviled on the Left as the father of the H-bomb, an early supporter of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, and a stalwart anti-Communist. Yet he is fully deserving of the award as one of the 20th century's most important scientists and for his important role in winning the Cold War. Unfortunately, Teller's health will keep him from picking up...

McCarthyism - The Right's Badge Of Honor By William A. Mayer On Monday May 5, 2003 over 4,200 pages of previously classified testimony, made before the 1953-1954 Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations, became available to the public. These hearings [although some of the thunder had already been stolen during the 1948 - 1949 Nixon chaired HUAC sessions] delved further into the charges that the Soviet Union had placed intelligence agents - spies - throughout the Democrat administrations of both FDR and Harry Truman. The Committee’s lighting rod chairman at the time was the Republican Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph P....

Brilliant Pebbles and its original braintrust of physicists -- the mercurial Edward Teller, lead co-inventor of the H-bomb, and his creative proteges, defense theorists Lowell Wood and Greg Canavan -- are entwined in the public memory of the Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative. In the early 1980s, Teller sold Reagan on the technical feasibility of making nuclear war obsolete, then assembled Wood and Cavanan month after month in 1986 for strategic thought exercises, based on John Nash game theory. Wood played attacking Soviet forces, the red team; Canavan played the American defenders, the blue team; Teller refereed. Canavan stretched his imagination...