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Why the 'Father of the Hydrogen Bomb' Hated Carl Sagan
So why did Edward Teller hate such a seemingly unhateable person? It almost entirely came down to a debate over thermonuclear weapons.
Edward Teller, along with Stanisław Ulam, was instrumental in creating the hydrogen bomb, and loudly advocated for nuclear weapon proliferation. He believed that nuclear war could be won and supported the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a system of satellites colloquially known as "Star Wars" that were touted to protect the U.S. from a barrage of incoming nuclear missiles. Teller's infatuation with nukes was so great that he opposed any testing bans and even argued for using nuclear bombs to excavate dirt and defend Earth from asteroids.
On the other side of the debate was Carl Sagan. The celebrated Cornell University cosmologist, fresh off the astounding success of his PBS series Cosmos, sought to harness his newfound fame to advocate against nuclear weapons proliferation.
"Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse," he said.
Sagan lent his name and reputation to a 1983 study conducted by some of his former students which came to a disquieting conclusion: the firestorms and destruction wrought by nuclear war would send so much soot into the atmosphere that they would trigger catastrophic global climate change, blocking out the Sun and dropping global temperatures by as much as 25 degrees Celsius, triggering mass famine as crops failed across the world. They called the scenario "nuclear winter". It meant that nuclear war was unwinnable. Humanity always loses.
In his book, The Demon-Haunted World, Sagan recalled that it was the most controversy he ever courted. Teller and others mercilessly attacked the paper as well as Sagan. "Teller called Sagan an 'excellent propagandist' and suggested that the concept of nuclear winter was 'highly speculative,'" Richard Wolfson and Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress wrote in their book Nuclear Choices for the 21st Century.
Good to have you back, Cool Breeze.Cool Breeze wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:52 am I'm a believer in the limited nuclear strike, for many reasons, but also defense reasons (most will be stopped if it does happen where many are launched). The main reason is that I believe it will be the easiest way to simultaneously kill some large portion of humans and subjugate the rest, the greater part of the sick desire of the worlds global demons, which is the clear plan currently. The beast system has already hinted and prefigured itself in various types, but is not ready. Not seeing this (identity hack can't or won't even try to tell you what a woman is) is a clear indication of the spiritual disease and decline of America and the west, which has been going on for decades, under the direction of many evil actors, both internally and internationally.
According to this guy, America should just cower in fear and let the mighty Russian army rape and murder the Ukrainians. He doesn't know how technologically advanced (either officially or unofficially (classified)), that American nuclear submarines really are. America is not the sitting duck that he believes it to be. The American armed forces have declined since 1992, but Russia's armed forces have practically collapsed.thomasglee wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:28 pm "What we are seeing is a fiction... the bigger conflict is coming".
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry breaks down his theories about whats actual going on in the far east.