Word: teller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientist hammered hardest at ex-AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss (now Secretary of Commerce) and ex-AEC Consultant Edward Teller. Strauss and Teller, said the Science Advisory Committee spokesman, are "radicals . . . extremists of one viewpoint." He stressed the point that the Science Advisory Committee's now dominant voices, e.g., Killian, Columbia University's Dr. I. I. Rabi, base their stop-the-tests stand on purely technical, nonpolitical grounds. But he went on to say that Science Advisory Committee members feel that test stoppage, all science aside, will bring the "reduction of tensions," and "hope of a world that does...
Davis charged Strauss and Teller with adopting the thesis that "there should be no serious disarmament discussion because, even if we managed to negotiate an agreement, the Russians could find a way to get around...
...Strauss-Teller theory, Davis said, "held that anything which diverts the minds and pocketbooks of America from preparation for the 'inevitable conflict with Russia' is treasonable...
According to Davis, Admiral Strauss held the threat of 'military secrecy' over the heads of nuclear scientists who disagreed with his policies, "while allowing Teller to tour the country explaining his point of view...
...profound change occurred in the post-Sputnik era, said Davis. "Dr. Killian and his group of scientific advisers managed to defeat the Strauss-Teller position within the Administration, and this led to the present arms control conferences...