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Article: Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove.(The Bomb: A Life)(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove, by Peter Goodchild. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2004. xxv, 469 pp. $29.95 US (cloth).
The Bomb: A Life, by Gerard J. DeGroot. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii, 397 pp. $27.95 US (cloth).
Nuclear physicist Edward Teller's death on 9 September 2003, at age 95, passed without much comment in the media. The same month claimed the lives of actor John Ritter and singer Johnny Cash, so the eyes of popular culture were diverted to mourn more familiar faces. The closest Teller comes to contemporary celebrity status is the rumour that he was the inspiration for the title character in ...