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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes

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Robert Oppenheimer's Best Enemy

You talked to teller in writing the book. And obviously, he was a big inspiration for the US pursuing the hydrogen bomb. What was his feelings when you talked to him about this? I made the mistake of going to see teller at his house on the grounds of Stanford University early on in my research. He had reached the point where he was telling TV interviewers, asking them how much time he would actually be on the air. But that quote was worth the whole thing because, you know, Eisenhower in one of his memoirs says, I always liked Hannibal Best of all the classical figures in the military of the Roman Empire.

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