Carl Sagan and Edward Teller: an uneasy alliance over defending the earth.(Tributes to Carl Sagan)

Skeptic (Altadena, CA) | March 22, 2006| | Copyright

CARL SAGAN AND EDWARD TELLER WERE bitter opponents in national security debates about issues such as "Star Wars" and nuclear test bans, but ironically they agreed on defending the Earth against asteroids--an agreement that neither, however, was ready to admit in public. They drew very different conclusions from the impact threat--Sagan saw it is a justification for space exploration, Teller as a reason to build bigger nuclear bombs.

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