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cold war was : Cray1 1742
Alien technology from Roswell in computers No, no, you got this all wrong. See, the aliens didn't just crash with their... Of course not. But the vast majority were not targets. By the early 50's Los Alamos had a working population of over 4000. The politicos in Washington knew a few dozen at the lab, Teller knew a few hundred he might refer to interested parties, but most were below the radar. cold war Wow! I met a modest number of those guys: Kistiakowsky, Manley, Bradbury, Fermi's wife, Feynman, Bethe via email... No. Absence of data, by itself, never tells you anything. Data on the absence, records of the destruction of material, employee records showing rapid turnover due to clearance loss (as opposed to denial), can tell you something. Morrison was a special case in that he was very public about his views, particularly public as one of the founders of the Federation of American Scientists, and a particularly vocal opponent of nuclear weapons. He was in trouble without any help from Teller. Others, with sufficient prestige,, did well in spite of not being on Teller's best graces, e.g., Ulam, Bradbury, and sometimes Bethe (though it was difficult for anyone to dislike Bethe). Oppenheimer was vulnerable, not because he peeed off Teller, but rather because he peeed off the head of the AEC (Lewis Strauss), and the heads of the Air Force. As to whether Teller lobied successfuly to deprive people, other than Oppenheimer, of their jobs, I don't know. I do know that even before the Oppenheimer hearings in 1954 Teller appeared to have alienated much of Los Alamos's leadership and had made his main center of operations at what would become Lawrencee Livermore Nalional Lab. At Livermore, if he desired he would have had a large influence (it was started at his urging).. His influence on firing at Los Alamos I would have expected to be negligible post 1952, but in the period 1948-1952 he may have had influence.
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