Better a Shield Than a Sword By Edward Teller The Free Press, 257 pages, $19.95 A Nobel laureate physicist, a friend of mine, once remarked not entirely tongue-in-cheek that Edward Teller and Andre… ...

Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America’s hydrogen bomb, ... His father was a teacher of electronics at a technical high school during the day and a projectionist in a movie theater at night.

Dr. Edward Teller, 46-year-old Hungarian refugee of Jewish parentage, was today revealed to be the “father of the H-bomb” with the release of testimony in the case involving Dr. J. Robert ...

The Father of the Bomb. In the months after the President’s order, there is evidence of further delay. After Truman’s order, Oppenheimer never publicly opposed the H-bomb. But other scientists ...

A hydrogen bomb would be thousands of times more powerful than the bombs Oppenheimer oversaw. He lobbied for nuclear arms control. In 1947, he became the director of the Institute for Advanced ...

Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America's hydrogen bomb, ... Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, called him “the only true genius I have ever met,” Garwin was not the father of the hydrogen bomb.

Richard L. Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, died Tuesday, his daughter-in-law, Tabatha Garwin confirmed to CBS News.The renowned scientist was 97 years old. A prominent scientist who ...