RIP Edward Teller

How many people did Teller kill, as opposed to say, Idi Amin or Stalin?


Gordon

Gordon wrote in message
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How many people did Teller kill, as opposed to say, Idi Amin or
Stalin?


Gordon

I'd say a few million people fewer than Kalashnikov or Stalin, Mao,
Hitler, Pol Pot.

Thank God Teller was working for us rather than against us.

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"tscottme" wrote in message
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Gordon wrote in message
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How many people did Teller kill, as opposed to say, Idi Amin or
Stalin?


Gordon

I'd say a few million people fewer than Kalashnikov or Stalin, Mao,
Hitler, Pol Pot.

Thank God Teller was working for us rather than against us.

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Scott



That's all very nice, now how do we get JGG to defect ?





Cheers


Dave Kearton

Subject: RIP Edward Teller
From: "tscottme"
Date: 9/13/03 12:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Message-id:

Gordon wrote in message
...
How many people did Teller kill, as opposed to say, Idi Amin or
Stalin?


Gordon

I'd say a few million people fewer than Kalashnikov or Stalin, Mao,
Hitler, Pol Pot.

Thank God Teller was working for us rather than against us.

--

Scott

I remember attending a lecture by Teller at The New School in NY in the 50's.
The lecture was on Theory of Relativity. To this day I can remember the last
line of the lecture. After going through the complexities of the theory he
finsihed with, " Zee trupple mit science fiction ist das es ist tzu
unimaginatif". And he was right.






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From: nt (Gordon)
Date: 9/12/2003 11:26 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

How many people did Teller kill, as opposed to say, Idi Amin or Stalin?


Gordon

I am sure you know many U. S. servicemen and a few civilians near atmospheric
tests radiation poisoning and various cancers. Many of the affected have since
died.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

B2431 wrote:
I am sure you know many U. S. servicemen and a few civilians near
atmospheric
tests radiation poisoning and various cancers. Many of the affected
have since
died.

True, but who is the actual killer - the person who makes the bullet or
the person who pulls the trigger?

Cheers
David

davo

the us military industry wouldnt care less, it makes weapons, after that
there is sales support service and mega profits, and then their is the
perosn who pulls or pushes the trigger...

all are guilty.. even i will if we have to use the raaf for another
invasion somewhere soon...hopefully someone will remove the rogue leader
howard from office quick smart before that happens.

but least i aint a american who actually thinks killing other is like a
sport and fun..in america your actually encouraged to kill people
....how? buy a gun... learn to shoot.. pretty bizzare



David Bromage wrote:

B2431 wrote:
I am sure you know many U. S. servicemen and a few civilians near
atmospheric
tests radiation poisoning and various cancers. Many of the affected
have since
died.

True, but who is the actual killer - the person who makes the bullet or
the person who pulls the trigger?

Cheers
David

"Aerophotos" wrote in message
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all are guilty.. even i will if we have to use the raaf for another
invasion somewhere soon...hopefully someone will remove the rogue leader
howard from office quick smart before that happens.

Are you sure you have enlisted in the RAAF dickwit?

fallout from thermonuclear testing is all we need to say .. the deadly
cancer after effect has killed many more people then hitler stalin etc
and other ever did in the world

Bought that clue yet? rag head apologist.

From: David Bromage
Date: 9/13/2003 3:28 AM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

B2431 wrote:
I am sure you know many U. S. servicemen and a few civilians near
atmospheric
tests radiation poisoning and various cancers. Many of the affected
have since
died.

True, but who is the actual killer - the person who makes the bullet or
the person who pulls the trigger?

Cheers
David


Unfortunately for the dead Teller insisted on lots of tests. Many of his peers,
besides the ones from Manhatten Project who later opposed building the
thermonuclear devices after they had seen in Japan, have said too many tests
were done on his direction. Long before the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty the
actual effects of the bombs were well documented. All that was left to do was
make smaller and more efficient bombs. These were done after the ban.

My theory is he was just like a lot of people in the business and liked to see
the explosions. I know I would have liked to have seen one.

Your analogy is correct that the end user was responsible, I don't hold him
resposible for designing it, but I do hold him responsible for excess testing.

The bombs did need to be built, many of the tests did need to be done, but just
how many?

Maybe we need to do an above ground detonation occassionally so people can see
what they are actually afraid of.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

From:

Unfortunately for the dead Teller insisted on lots of tests. Many of his
peers,
besides the ones from Manhatten Project who later opposed building the
thermonuclear devices after they had seen in Japan, have said too many tests

The US has conducted more nuclear tests than any other country, 300 or so more
than the (f)SU. A table listing totals by year and country is at:

http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nudb/datab15.asp

I was surprised to see how many nukes the French have fired off, more than
double the total of the Brits and Chinese combined.


Chris Mark