An Early Time, Presented by Physicist Edward Teller
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Manhattan Project veteran Edward Teller tells the story of World War II and the Manhattan Project from his perspective.
When this film was made, Edward Teller remained quite unpopular in Los Alamos due to his testimony against J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1954... among other things. Despite this, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory invited Teller to make this film. I don't know what the backstory of the film is, but I'm under the impression the Laboratory's Director at the time, Harold Agnew, hoped to rehabilitate Teller's reputation to some extent. Whatever the case may be, an Early Time is an interesting film hosted by a fascinating - and polarizing - scientist.
I apologize for the rather poor video quality - I hope to acquire a better scan in the future.
Its so interesting how love of numbers and music go together. Dr. Teller was my father’s boss. My dad and I are both pianists., organists, and flutests. Dad a geophysicist and I am an financial analyst. Thank you for this video.
In this video Teller was so much kinder to Opie than when we talked briefly about 'Opie' in 1974 (Vietnam was 'semi-concluding' in 74, but divisive anger was still in the air). In Teller's later writings, he went back to less anger as he described 'Opie'. I think Dyson Freeman described Teller perfectly! ... That said, I found Teller to be very entertaining and he was VERY kind to me and the several folks at UCLA during his weekly visit from his main office in the Bay Area... In my firsthand opinion, some of the comments below unfairly describe Teller.
its so weird seeing teller, yknow, like, mr. h-bomb himself, just being a sweet old man. look at his little hawaiian button-up. how can u hate this guy.
Pretty easily considering his actions
Teller could be the villain in a movie. What he did to Oppenheimer was criminal, and his "ends justifies the means" attitude towards so many things put the world in danger.
Oppenheimer Leftist sympathies gave the Russians the bomb. He could have stopped it if he didn't evade the fact that Communist spies, whom he had ample reason to mistrust, gave the Russians the bomb. Oppenheimer proved that his judgment could not be trusted.
Quite the opposite. Teller was right, nuclear weapons brought an unprecedented era of peace in history
Agreed, Teller was a terrible person
@@mmuu9744 And on top of that, had we not listened to him and pursued to H Bomb, Soviet totalitarianism might have engulfed the entire world rather than half of Europe and Asia, which was bad enough.
Fairly hagiographic, as would be expected. Still some interesting details - I'd always read that he'd been in a "car accident" that had resulted in his foot amputation. A car accident would suggest a simple crushing injury with perhaps compound fracture, but the reality of the STREETcar incident causing it is vastly more gruesome.
Do you have any videos from the 70s or 80s on longwave attempts at laser fusion at LANL, eg. Helios?
Thanks for tuning-in. I will keep my eyes peeled for publicly releasable films pertaining to laser fusion.
Great!
A great scientist and pioneer in the development of atomic theory. Thanks for posting...
liar, villain and no one more...