An interesting read: Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove

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3. I read "Making of the Atomic Bomb" a long time ago...

...but not "Dark Sun." I'll probably never get to it honestly.

I greatly respect Richard Rhodes for his nuclear power advocacy.

Looking into Teller inspired me to think about and consider Isador Rabi whose work on nuclear spin stimulated the development of NMR/MRI. The connection with Teller is that Rabi's antipathy to him was punctuated with a claim that the world would have been a better place had Teller never been born.

Rabi's defense of Oppenheimer against Strauss (who all of our antinukes love to quote as if there are any forms of energy that are "too cheap to meter" ) was accurately portrayed in the Oppenheimer movie as the remark "We have the atom bomb, what more do you want, mermaids?"

Rabi was among those who never forgave Teller for the Oppenheimer tragedy.