Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ATOM Way to Survive Haunting many minds in the Atomic Age is the dark thought that an H-bomb or H-missile attack would be so devastating that survivors, if any, would be reduced to Stone Age primitiveness. Not necessarily, says Budapest-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, and sometimes called (he modestly disclaims the tag) "father of the H-bomb." Writing on "The Nature of Nuclear Warfare" in this month's Air Force, Teller argues that a nuclear attack on the U.S. need not be "cataclysmic" and casualties...
...Back in Business. Teller's "if" is enormous-but practical. To save lives and limbs under nuclear attack, the U.S. needs "deep underground shelters [so numerous] that in any densely populated area in this country people can walk to a shelter within 15 minutes." Stored in the shelters would be food, medicines, communications equipment, decontamination devices, and mining machinery for digging out through blast-blocked entrances. "These shelters," he writes, "could provide protection, not only against the radiation hazard, but also against the biggest immediate hazard, the fire-storm...
...These things will be extremely expensive ... I am not sure that it can be done. But I think there is at least a chance that it might be done." Russia, cramped by shortages, definitely cannot now make such preparations. "Even if we would be so prepared," says Teller, "an attack would be terrible. But the main point is this: if we so prepare ourselves that a terrible attack could hurt us but could not destroy us, then such an attack, I believe, will never come...
...Ferenc Molnar, the Gabor sisters, Ilona Massey and Leslie Howard (real name: Arpad Steiner); such scientists as Nobel Prizewinner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (discoverer of vitamin C) and Mathematician John Von Neumann; such public figures as David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller, Socialist Eugene V. Debs...
...This series is the biggest thing we've ever attempted," says Rice, who has made some 85 educational shows (including a series with Atom Physicist Edward Teller). "It needed to be done, if only as a historical document." The document was crudely etched. Because both funds and the spare time of modern scientists were at a premium, there were few rehearsals and few retakes. Budgetary corners were sharply cut, e.g., when Seaborg asked for a relief globe he got a weather balloon, and when that burst, made do with a beach ball. But the producers and performers...