Edward Teller
The Real Dr. Strangelove
Peter Goodchild
Peter Goodchild demonstrates in this sensitive and fascinating biography, Teller's danger arose from the fact that he was both a brilliant scientist and a skilled political manipulator - but unfortunately also a man of limited wisdom. It would be easy to ridicule [Teller], but Goodchild, to his credit, resists shallow scorn. Teller emerges as a complicated individual whose actions were always logical, if rather warped. He becomes rather more frightening than I had ever previously imagined, for it is no longer possible to dismiss him as a madman.
--Gerard J. DeGroot, Scotland on Sunday
Edward Teller, the 'Father of the H-bomb,' emerges in this readable biography as a brilliant, insecure, sometimes paranoid figure with a significant--and decidedly ambiguous--historical legacy...Goodchild, a BBC television producer and author of a biography of Oppenheimer, offers a detailed, studiously balanced portrait drawn from archives and interviews with Teller himself and many who knew (and loved or loathed) him.
--Publishers Weekly
An excellent biography of a great physicist-politician and an interesting account of most of the science and politics involved with nuclear weapons.
--R. L. Stearns, Choice


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