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Edward Teller
1943–2003
Theoretical physicist, father of the hydrogen bomb, and one of the most powerful figures in Cold-War weapons science. Hungarian emigre Martian and Manhattan Project veteran who co-devised the Teller-Ulam H-bomb design, co-founded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1952), and later championed Reagan's SDI Star Wars program built around his and protege Lowell Wood's X-ray laser. His 1954 testimony against Robert Oppenheimer helped destroy Oppenheimer's clearance - a defining rift in physics. He recurs across this map's fringe-science threads: at the 1949 Los Alamos green-fireball conference he judged the objects ought to be a material body; he was named in a 1971 Australian anti-gravity memo; he witnessed a Townsend Brown demonstration and reportedly said I don't know how this works; and he is widely believed to have helped Bob Lazar get his EG&G job.
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named him in his 1971 memo on U.S. anti-gravity research
spent ~20 minutes at the blackboard trying to physically explain it
Source: Green fireball / Project Twinkle history; Feb 1949 Los Alamos conference
co-devised the Teller-Ulam hydrogen-bomb design (1951)
Source: Wikipedia: Edward Teller
his protege at Livermore; together championed the SDI X-ray laser
Source: Wikipedia: Edward Teller
helped shape its early scientific program (1955)
Source: Wikipedia: Edward Teller
presented his fireball case file to him at the Feb. 1949 Los Alamos conference
Source: Green fireball / Project Twinkle history; Feb 1949 Los Alamos conference
Teller witnessed his experiments and said "I don't know how this works"
Source: Paul Schatzkin, The Man Who Mastered Gravity: T.T. Brown (2020)
commended John Alexander's non-lethal-weapons work in a documented letter
Source: Teller-Alexander correspondence
co-founded Lawrence Livermore with him (1952); the two later split over the nuclear test ban
Source: Wikipedia: Herbert York; Lawrence Livermore history
fellow Hungarian Martian and Manhattan Project physicist
Source: CERN Courier — The Martians of Science
developed the hydrogen bomb there; a founding figure of the lab
Source: Wikipedia: Edward Teller
co-founded it in 1952 as a rival to Los Alamos
Source: Wikipedia: Edward Teller
fellow Hungarian-emigre Martian; Manhattan Project and Cold-War defense-science colleagues
Source: Wikipedia: Edward Teller
both named in a 1971 Australian intelligence memo on anti-gravity research
his Strategic Defense Initiative was built around Teller's X-ray laser concepts
Source: Optica OPN — History of the X-ray Laser
widely believed to have helped Bob Lazar get his job at EG&G / the S-4 program
Source: Lazar accounts; UFO literature
testified against Oppenheimer at his 1954 security hearing, helping strip his clearance - a defining rift in physics
Source: Wikipedia: Edward Teller