Word: teller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Debating before a Kennedy School Forum crowd of more than 900. Dr. Hans Bethe and Dr. Edward Teller sharply disagreed over whether an American missile defense system based in space would be effective...
...other hand, Teller, who is considered the father of the hydrogen bomb, acknowledged that while the development of such weapons will prove scientifically difficult, it is necessary to curb a growing Soviet military threat...
...moral and practical necessity to develop a strong defense because the Soviets are already doing it," said Teller, a researcher at Stanford University's Hoover Institute...
...Both Teller and Bethe worked on the so called "Manhattan Project" during World War II in which the United States developed the atomic bomb...
Bethe, who seemed to have the general support of the crowd, showed his colors as an advocate of disarmament efforts, while Teller showed more hard-line views and an advocacy of Reagan's space-war plans...