"At the end of the war, most people wanted to stop. I didn't. Because here was more knowledge. And in the coming uncertain period, with a dangerous man like Stalin around, and our incomplete knowledge, I felt that more knowledge is necessary. Among the people who knew a great deal about the hydrogen bomb, I was the only advocate of it. And that is, I think, my contribution. Not that I invented it, others would have — and others in the Soviet Union did. But I was the one person who put knowledge, and the availability of knowledge, above everything else."
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Jews from the United StatesPresidential Medal of Freedom recipientsAgnostics from the United StatesPhysicists from the United StatesPhysicists from Hungary
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On the creation of the hydrogen bomb, in Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
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Edward Teller
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (15 January 1908 – 9 September 2003) was an American nuclear physicist, known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb."
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