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Paul Schatzkin | T. Townsend Brown, Philo T. Farnsworth, Secret Science, & The Caroline Group

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The Story of Edward Teller and the Oppenheimer Fan

The Farnsworth fan was stolen by Oppenheimer's rival Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb. The two men clashed over whether or not we should go on and develop the hydrogen bomb which is an uncontrolled nuclear fusion process. After Brown demonstrated the fan for some capitalists in Southern California he takes it up to Northern California because I think Teller was living in the Berkeley area at the time. He says he asks for a picture in brown means what do you mean he said well he wanted a schematic of it. And his wife said to Linda you have no idea how satisfying it is to hear him say that.

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