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Nuclear physicist Edward Teller said Wednesday night that the United States should "unilaterally abandon secrecy" to help create "an open world without which a disarmed world is not possible...
Speaking in the Quincy House Junior Common Room, Teller, who strongly advocated development of the hydrogen bomb, maintained that the present U.S. security classification system does not protect the United States; "the Russians probably know all our secrets and all those we will discover in the next few years...
...Teller, however, differentiated between technical data, which he wants declassified, and operational information on the deployment of American weapons, which he felt should not be disclosed. Teller differentiated between technical principles and specific blueprints; he stated that detailed blueprints of nuclear weapons should be withheld as secret information...
...first step in abandoning secrecy, Teller said the U.S. government should end its practice of classifying whole areas of research. The government should be required to demonstrate that a project ought to be classified, he said. Under the present system scientists must explain why their work should not be classified before they can publish...
...about in lederhosen, and Italy's Enrico Fermi, future U.S. father of the Abomb. U.S. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, winner last week of the AEC's Fermi Award (see PEOPLE), got his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1927. Another Göttingen recruit: Hungary's Edward Teller, future U.S. father of the H-bomb...