Teller, Edward

one of the models for Dr Strangelove.  He and Von N no regreats on H0Bomb? but teller felt bad about testimony to got Oppy to lose sec clearance the day before it expired (just to humiliate him? old girlfriend had gone to wrong mtgs? died of cancer not that much latter, puttering in yard next to IAS princeton?)=1957 Edward Teller at API
 from 1957 onward Humble Oil, one of predecessors of nowadays 
ExxonMobil, was aware of rising CO2 in the atmosphere and the 
prospect that it was likely to cause global warming. ExxonMobil 
responded to this claim that "to suggest that we had definitive 
knowledge about human-induced climate change before the world's 
scientists is not a credible thesis."[19] wiki---=<a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/how-exxon-chevron-and-their-buddies-58986784/">https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/how-exxon-chevron-and-their-buddies-58986784/</a>fOOTNOTES:<div class="css-cmf3mf e1rvx4i30" itemprop="podcastDescription" style="letter-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 2rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a target="blank" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50132400" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-decoration-line: none;">Exxon accused of misleading investors on climate change</a></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><a target="blank" href="https://influencemap.org/report/Climate-Lobbying-by-the-Fossil-Fuel-Sector" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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</div><div><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/03/03/illustrated-history-american-petroleum-institute-oil-knew-climate-change">https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/03/03/illustrated-history-american-petroleum-institute-oil-knew-climate-change</a></div>Teller suffered a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocardial_infarction" title="Myocardial infarction">heart attack</a> in 1979, which he blamed on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda" title="Jane Fonda">Jane Fonda</a>; after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident" title="Three Mile Island accident">Three Mile Island accident</a>, the actress had outspokenly lobbied against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor" title="Nuclear reactor" class="mw-redirect">nuclear power</a> while promoting her latest movie, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome" title="The China Syndrome">The China Syndrome</a> (a movie depicting a nuclear accident which had coincidentally been released only a little over a week before the actual incident.) In response, Teller acted quickly to lobby in favor of nuclear energy, testifying to its safety and reliability, and after such a flurry of activity suffered the attack. Teller authored a two-page spread in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect">Wall Street Journal</a> which appeared on July 31, 1979, under the headline "I was the only victim of Three-Mile Island", which opened with:

<table class="cquote" style=" margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: none; background-color: transparent; width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="20" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px;">“</td><td valign="top" style=" padding: 4px 10px;">On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader" title="Ralph Nader">Ralph Nader</a>, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#cite_note-42">[43]</a></td><td valign="bottom" width="20" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px;">”</td></tr></tbody></table>

The next day, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> ran an editorial criticizing the ad, noting that it was sponsored by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresser_Industries" title="Dresser Industries">Dresser Industries</a>, the firm which had manufactured one of the defective valves which contributed to the Three Mile Island accident.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#cite_note-broad-43">[44]</a>

Teller's vigorous advocacy for strength through nuclear weapons, especially when so many of his wartime colleagues later expressed regret about the arms race, made him an easy target for the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_scientist" title="Mad scientist">mad scientist</a>" stereotype. In 1991 he was awarded one of the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize" title="Ig Nobel Prize">Ig Nobel Prizes</a> for Peace in recognition of his "lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it". He was also rumored to be the inspiration for the character of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.Strangelove,or_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Bomb" title="Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" class="mw-redirect">Dr. Strangelove</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick" title="Stanley Kubrick">Stanley Kubrick</a>'s 1964 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> film of the same name<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#cite_note-StanfordDeath-8">[9]</a> (other inspirations have been speculated to be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND" title="RAND" class="mw-redirect">RAND</a> theorist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kahn" title="Herman Kahn">Herman Kahn</a>, rocket scientist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun" title="Wernher von Braun">Wernher von Braun</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_Defense" title="Secretary of Defense" class="mw-redirect">Secretary of Defense</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara" title="Robert McNamara">Robert McNamara</a>). In the aforementioned Scientific American interview from 1999, he was reported as having bristled at the question: "My name is not Strangelove. I don't know about Strangelove. I'm not interested in Strangelove. What else can I say?... Look. Say it three times more, and I throw you out of this office."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#cite_note-stix-2">[3]</a> Nobel Prize winning physicist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidor_I._Rabi" title="Isidor I. Rabi" class="mw-redirect">Isidor I. Rabi</a> once suggested that "It would have been a better world without Teller."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#cite_note-51">[52]</a> In addition, Teller's false claims that Stanislaw Ulam made no significant contribution to the development of the hydrogen bomb (despite Ulam's key insights of using compression and staging elements to generate the thermonuclear reaction) and his personal attacks on Oppenheimer caused even greater animosity within the general physics community towards Teller.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#cite_note-mcmillan-31">[32]</a>