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Infamy and Honor at the Atomic Caf¿ ( Preview )

Father of the hydrogen bomb, "Star Wars" missile defense and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Edward Teller has no regrets about his contentious career

By Gary Stix   

 
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As I'm leaving for John F. Kennedy airport, I tell a colleague that I will be away to interview Edward Teller. "Is he still alive?" she asks in amazement. A day later I sit across the

room from a 91-year-old man slumped in his desk chair, his five-foot-high carved wooden walking stick leaning against a desk that has a Ronald

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