Edward Teller - Writing to Roosevelt (Part 1) (66/147)
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2017
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Hungarian-American physicist, Edward Teller (1908-2003), helped to develop the atomic bomb and provided the theoretical framework for the hydrogen bomb. He remained a staunch advocate of nuclear power, calling for the development of advanced thermonuclear weapons. [Listener: John H. Nuckolls]
TRANSCRIPT: The one man who really wouldn't give up was, of course, Leó Szilárd. He, together with Eugene Wigner, went to Einstein, whom they knew way back from Berlin and they put the case before Einstein and asked him to use his authority. I don't know to what extent Einstein then agreed, but I know of first hand- first hand about it - was concerning Szilárd and concerning the point that Szilárd, with all his ingenuity, still did not know how to do one thing. He did not know how to drive a car. And so he asked, where I was teaching then summer school at Columbia, summer of '39, the 2nd of August, I think, to be precise, to drive me out, to drive- drive him out to the end of Long Island where Einstein spent his summer weeks. And I did drive, we didn't get into any trouble. We couldn't find Einstein, for the simple reason that Szilárd did not know where he lived, he only knew the name of the place. So we asked and finally we came down to a nice little girl, I don't think she was ten years old yet. She hadn't heard ever about Einstein either but then Szilárd said- This nice old man with the long white hair. - Oh yes, right there, next door. So we arrived. And Einstein invited Szilárd for tea and since he was very democratic he invited Szilárd's chauffeur as well. So I was there on the historic occasion when Szilárd took out the letter of Einstein to Roosevelt, from Szilárd's pocket - I think Szilárd's writing - informing the President of the possibility of an atomic bomb, of the real danger that the Nazis might do something about it. Szilárd gave the letter to Einstein and Einstein read it carefully. And my impression is that he read it- that he never had seen it before. At any rate, when he was through reading it, he said- Yes, yes. This would be the first time that nuclear energy would be re- would be released closer to us than in the sun. And he signed. - Наука та технологія
Teller must have been Woody Allen's inspiration for his character Zellig. At the right place, at the right time, every time. Neutron discovered? There. Szillard meets with Einstein? There. Roosevelt trips on a banana peel? There. Beatles play at Madison Square? There. Etc.
Liar liar ... There was one draft of the letter in Szilard's hand writing. Einstein read it and dictated a formal letter in German which one of the two, S , or Teller wrote down. THis was then dictated/ translated to a stenographer back in NY. Then the letter was sent by post for A Einstein to sign. THe letter then went via a visit of Sachs to the president. Teller is confusing it all in his dotage me thinks. Teller of course did drive the car out to Long Island, as he says.
I don’t know if this detail is significant enough to call him a liar. In part 2 of the interview he largely agrees with your timeline. And as you point out Teller was pretty old here.
How do you know this to be fact? Give me a link for contemporary articles or some proof not a response otherwise I believe the man
@@csonracsonra9962 Details are in The Making of the Atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes. You may also find some details of this business in the Kathy Loves Physics blog thing on this very same internet.
@@csonracsonra9962 I do believe you are the one and only Aron S Cohen squared, well known YT commentator and Episcopalian.
@@NoahSpurrier
Einstein-Szilard letter on Wiki is a good place to look . Someone else below hinted that I was talking Hot air. or in Australian parlance , I was an Oxygen Bandit..
How do you know this to be fact give me a link and not a response otherwise I believe him