Pandora's Keepers

by Brian Van DeMark

  58. Quoted in Bernstein, “Profiles: Physicist—II,” p. 94.

  59. Quoted in NYT, January 12, 1988, p. A24.

  60. See John Noble Wilford, “Teller Deplores Secret Research,” in ibid., December 28, 1970, pp. 1, 25.

  61. Quoted in “Edward Teller and His Critics,” Part 1, Bridges: A Liberal/Conservative Dialogue with Larry Josephson, National Public Radio, November 1995.

  62. Transcript, Firing Line, Southern Educational Communications Association, June 15, 1982, p. 7.

  63. Quoted in Douglas C. Waller, Congress and the Nuclear Freeze (University of Massachusetts Press, 1987), p. 191.

  64. Quoted in “Our Times with Bill Movers,” CBS TV, June 27, 1983.

  65. Quoted in Rigden, Rabi, p. 229.

  66. Ibid., pp. 209–210.

  67. Quoted in Charles Claffey, “A Father of the A-Bomb Looks Back in Torment,” Boston Globe, April 15, 1983, p. 1; and I. I. Rabi, “How Well We Meant.”

  68. Author’s interview with Edward Teller, Stanford, Calif., July 27, 1998.

  69. Broad, Teller’s War, pp. 270–271.

  70. Quoted in Gary Stix, “Profile: Infamy and Honor at the Atomic Café,” Scientific American, October 1999, p. 44.

  71. Teller with Shoolery, Memoirs, p. 396.

  72. Ibid., p. 22 n.

  73. Quoted in Blumberg and Panos, Edward Teller, p. 2.

  74. Quoted in Lee Edson, “Scientific Man For All Seasons,” New York Times Magazine, March 10, 1968, p. 124.

  75. Dyson, Disturbing the Universe, p. 47.

  76. See Testimony before House Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science, May 13, 1985; and Notes of Remarks at Los Alamos National Laboratory, April 13, 1983, BPP.

  77. Quoted in Blumberg and Panos, Edward Teller, p. 198.

  78. Edward Teller to Hans Bethe, February 28, 1984, in ibid., p. 264.

  79. Edward Teller to Hans Bethe, May 23, 1985, in ibid., pp. 265–266.

  80. Hans Bethe to Edward Teller, June 20, 1985, BPP.

  81. Edward Teller to Hans Bethe, July 8, 1985; and Hans Bethe to Edward Teller, August 5, 1985, in ibid.

  82. Author’s interview with Louis Rosen, Los Alamos, N.Mex., July 16, 1997.

  83. Author’s interview with Herbert York, La Jolla, Calif., March 12, 2001.

  84. Quoted in Palevsky, Atomic Fragments, p. 158.

  85. Handwritten Notes, “28 Nov 72,” HABP, CAKL, CU.

  86. “Talk to Members of Congress,” July 16, 1985, BPP.

  87. Quoted in Chronicle of Higher Education, January 31, 1997, p. A14.

  88. Hans Bethe, FAS Public Interest Report, September–October 1995.

  89. Quotes are in John W. Finney, “Bethe Receives Atom Award,” NYT, December 2, 1961; and Edson, “Scientific Man for All Seasons,” p. 125.

  90. Quoted in Judith Horstman, “Hans Bethe: A Reluctant Warrior,” Ithaca Journal, December 18, 1981, p. 5.

  Epilogue: The Atomic Scientists and Today

  1. James M. Clash, “Ground Zero,” American Heritage, April 1998, pp. 65–66.

  2. Patricia Leigh Brown, “Preserving the Birthplaces of the Atom Bomb,” NYT, April 7, 2001, p. A10.

  3. Rabi, My Life and Times as a Physicist, p. 3.

  4. J. Robert Oppenheimer, “Atomic Physics in Civilization,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Papers, Box 29, JRL, UC.

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  Frank Oppenheimer. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

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