The "creator" of the H-Bomb died yesterday

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Teller Ede, died yesterday in California. He was 95 years old. He was born in Hungary, then he emigrated to the USA. There he took part in creating the first Atomic-bomb, and he was, who made the theory of the Fusion (Hydrogen)-Bomb...

Without him there wouldn't be any A/H-bombs, no Cold-war, no Atomic Power Plants... and most of all... no Fallout...
 
*sheds a small tear*
Sad that one of the people that stood behind the nuclear bombs and therefore, in a way, behind fallout is gone.

On the other hand he invented a bomb that scares the shite out of me. Let him burn, i´m certain those bombes of his will one day kill very many people.
 
Let's also not forget that Ed Teller was one of the people behind Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a strategic nuclear advisor to five presidents, one of Oppenheimer (the father of the A-bomb) most scathing critics after Oppenheimer began to question the morality of the weapon.

Nuclear weapons- might have given us relative world peace, but at the risk of our own extinction.

Feeling toasting down there Ed?
 
This is also under DaC... but here in Hungary the TVshows are all about Ede Teller now...

And don't forget about the fact, that there won't be any atomic power plants either... today a majority of the power is generated by them...
 
I find it so ironic that this guy lived to be an impressive 95 years old when so many can die in an instant or painfully over a period of time because of what he did. Not to mention the birth defects that completely alters a person just because of pre-natal radiation.

With that said, I'm sure he won't be missed. Hey, at least I'm going to have an Ed s'more waiting for me, wherever I'm going.
 
A bomb= Fission of 235 atom component (Uranium235)
H bomb= Fusion of 1 atom component (Hydrogen)

Fission= Nuclear power
Fusion= As far as I know nobody has ever built a fusion power plant...

Let me know if I'm wrong, but let's not mix H bomb theories with fission power... ;P

Yup, I'm impressed too that guy lived that long, carrying in his consciousness that his lifetime achievment could annihilate humanity. But it made the world safer, in a sick, perverted kind of way.
 
Wooz69 said:
H bomb= Fusion of 1 atom component (Hydrogen)
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Not hydrogen, but hydrogen-2 and hydrogen-3, AKA deuterium and tritium

Fusion= As far as I know nobody has ever built a fusion power plant...
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I think they have, and I think they ran for 1/360th of a second before evaporating.
 
My point was nobody built a *fully functional* H plant on the guy's theories :)
Besides, hydrogen-2 and hydrogen-3 are still Hydrogen, as well as Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 will still be Fallout ;P
 
Wooz69 said:
Besides, hydrogen-2 and hydrogen-3 are still Hydrogen, as well as Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 will still be Fallout ;P
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Yeah, but you referred to it as a "1 atom component". Which really makes no sense, by the way. For all clarity, Hydrogen has 1 proton, which is why it's numbah 1. Hydrogen-2 and hydrogen-3 have respectively one or two extra neutrons. Uranium has 92 protons, from my memory, and 235 core particles (i.e. 143 neutrons), which is a long shot from being 235 molecules (since 235 core particles don't even make up for one molecule without any electrons).
 
*Ozrat stands on the sidelines with his pom-poms ready. The crowd goes wild as Kharn whoops some debating ass and Ozrat goes into the dance routine. Strangely, the audience falls to a sudden silence.*

Yay for chemistry! Yay to those of us who know something about it!
 
Not to be picky, but wasn't it Loe Szilard who first came up with the concept of the nuclear chain reaction and therefore the A-bomb.

In his defense, he tried to petition the world leaders not to use the bomb on moral grounds, and was later so horrified by his idea that he changed his field from physics to biology so that his ideas could actually help life. He also insisted that scientists accept moral responsibility for the consequences of their work.

Also was the guy who first identified the bit, or unit of information.

Anyways, a really good book that I read about the creation of the A-bomb was "Day One" . I highly recommend.
 
Hmmm Kharn what you are saying is Uranium doesnt have any electrons?As i remember the stabile atom has equal numbers of protons & elctrons and rest of 235 particles are neutrons.Hmmm reading all those sciens books from Vault City afected me somehow....
 
That's not what I said, I said neurons and protons don't make up for an atom, but rather for a core partilcle. U-235 has, as I mentioned, 92 protons, and thus has 92 electrons, and 143 neurons.

Anyway, the term "235 atom component" is just faulty.
 
My point in that "component" part was that H bombs and A bombs and A power plants work on different principles, I didn't want to argue about how faulty my description was :) ( which I recognise, I goofed out on that one :P anyways I'm no chemist nor physics professor, wasn't even a good student in high school :PPPP)

Therefore "without him" there would still be nuclear plants...

Anyways if it weren't him, somebody else would invent the damn things...
 
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