Interview: Dr. Richard Garwin discusses his role in making the hydrogen bomb

From: All Things Considered (NPR) | Date: April 25, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

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Interview: Dr. Richard Garwin discusses his role in making the hydrogen bomb

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In yesterday's New York Times there was a partial reassignment of paternity for the hydrogen bomb. Science writer William Broad reported an account of the invention of the bomb that was recorded privately by Edward Teller in 1979. In the early 1950s, Teller had been at Los Alamos National ...

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