OPINION: Of Science & Shelters

One of the most authoritative voices to speak up about the danger of growing Soviet scientific superiority over the U.S. belongs to Budapest-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller. 49, associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory and "the father of the H-bomb." Last week Teller's friends in the Pentagon were pointing glumly to his prediction in last April's Air Force magazine: "Ten years ago there was no question where the best scientists in the world could be found—here in the U.S. ... Ten years from now the best scientists in the...

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