02-02-2010, 08:56 PM
(01-09-2009, 01:42 PM)3D Sunset Wrote: Oh! Another Law of confusion occurred to me. When Don was asking about the creation of the atomic bomb, Ra mentioned that most of the developers of the bomb were fairly polarized to STO, but said that there was one significant exception who he refrained from naming because he was still alive. It's funny, but the first time I read that, I immediately thought of Edward Teller (father of the Hydrogen bomb), who did recently die. It might be interesting to get a confirmation of that from Q'uo. In looking at Teller's life, it's certainly easy to place him in the STS role.
I'm reading through some old threads today
I did a quick look up of Edward Teller... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller
From what I can tell, Mr. Teller was an outspoken advocate of nuclear energy / nuclear weapons for his entire professional career and life after they were developed. He even proposed using them to mine huge portions of land in order to create artificial water bodies. And at another point he coerced politicians in to not signing non-nuclear proliferation treaties. Yes, it does sound like Teller is at least leaning in the direction of STS. I don't know if he falls under the category of 'extremely STS polarized though', at least in comparison to other entities that we know were STS polarized, such as Himmler and Kahn.
Thoughts anyone?