Sun in a Bottle - Charles Seife [113]
14 “I very soon found some unjustified assumptions in Teller’s calculation” Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 419.
14n “On Edward Teller’s blackboard at Los Alamos” Serber, The Los Alamos Primer, 4.
14n “I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi” Groves, Now It Can Be Told, 296-97.
15 “Edward first thought it was a cinch.” Serber, The Los Alamos Primer, xxxi.
16 Oppenheimer bet Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 656, 668. Teller, with Shoolery, Memoirs, 211.
16 “The time will come” Los Alamos Science, “The Oppenheimer Years,” 25.
16 “There was no backing for the thermonuclear work” Teller and Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima, 41.
17 “Edward offered to bet me” John Manley quoted in Rhodes, Dark Sun, 404.
17 “It is likely that a super-bomb can be constructed” Ibid., 255.
18 “a choice between the quick and the dead,” Baruch, “The Baruch Plan.”
18 “We have evidence” Truman, “Statement by President Truman, September 23, 1949.”
19 “Keep your shirt on!” United States Atomic Energy Commission, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 714.
19 “We are all agreed that it would be wrong” General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Report on the “Super,” 30 October 1949, in Cantelon, Hewlett, and Williams, eds., The American Atom, 120.
19 “A super bomb might become a weapon of genocide,” Ibid., 121.
20 “The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon” Ibid., 122.
21 “The day has been filled, too, with talk about supers,” David E. Lilienthal, The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, Vol. 2, 577 (entry of 10 October 1949).
21 “Now I began to see a distorted human being,” McMillan, The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 44-45.
21 “[Scientists] are working and ‘have made considerable progress’” Friendly, “New A-Bomb Has 6 Times Power of 1st,” 1.
22 “It is part of my responsibility as Commander in Chief” Time, “The Decision L Is Yes,” 6 February 1950.
23 “Every day Stan would come into the office,” Rhodes, Dark Sun, 423.
23 “pale with anger.” Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb, 223.
23 “took real pleasure” Goodchild, Edward Teller, 163.
24 “Teller was not easily reconciled to our results,” Ulam, Adventures of a Mathematician, 216.
24 “You can’t get cylindrical containers of deuterium to burn” Goodchild, Edward Teller, 166.
24 “[Teller] was blamed at Los Alamos” Bethe, “Comments on the History of the H-Bomb,” 47.
25 “The holiday is over,” Reprinted in Shepley and Blair, The Hydrogen Bomb, 112.
25 “He proposed a number of complicated schemes” Bethe, “Comments on the History of the H-Bomb,” 48.
25n After the Soviets and Chinese Cumings, Origins of the Korean War, 741.
26 “his report was focused on the Super and was so negative” Teller, with Shoolery, Memoirs, 303.
26 “in a very different tone” Teller, with Shoolery, Memoirs, 303.
26 “Edward is full of enthusiasm about these possibilities,” Rhodes, Dark Sun, 467.
26n “Ulam felt that he invented the new approach to the hydrogen bomb.” Ibid., 471.
27 The remaining 25 kilotons Ibid., 474.
27 “Eniwetok would not be large enough” Ibid., 424.
28 “I expected that the General Advisory Committee,” United States Atomic Energy Commission, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 720.
28 “had created difficulties” Teller, with Shoolery, Memoirs, 327.
28n “technically sweet” United States Atomic Energy Commission, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 81.
29 “I am leaving the appeasers to join the fascists,” Rhodes, Dark Sun, 496.
30 fourteen buildings the size of the Pentagon U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Nuclear Agency, Operation Ivy, p. 188.
30 When that dot of light Teller and Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima, 56.
31 “It is my belief that if at the end of the war” Ibid., 714.
31 “go fishing for the rest of his life” Ibid., 721.
31 “In my new land,” Teller, with Shoolery, Memoirs, 397.
31 “We believe that, had Dr. Oppenheimer given his enthusiastic support” United States Atomic Energy