Journal 133 – Edward Teller’s life and achievements in the USA

In 1935,Teller and his wife emmigrated to the United States. E. Teller held a professorship at George Washington University. The Tellers became U.S. citizens in 1941.
In this same year, together with elite American physicists, R. Teller became a member of team which was realizing very secretly the Manhattan Project (1942-1945). A team goal was to construct an atomic bomb. Robert Teller played a key role, when the atomic bomb was only in the planning stage. He provoked his calculations, that the explosion will not provoke a never ending chain of reactions breaking atoms. IAt this time, it was very important. Many physicists were afraid that this kind of explosion would expand on the all earthly material.
A good time came for Teller in 1949. The Americans disclosed a Soviet atomic explosion. The American president, Harry Truman, gave a direction to build three thermonuclear weapons. Teller’s early considerations and calculations made it possible. The teams worked very fast and in 1952 the work was finished. E. Teller very carefully looked after a seismograph arrow at his underground laboratory in California. He first learned that his efforts succeeded.
From 1975 until his death, E. Teller occupied and an advisory position at The Institute Studies about War, Revolution and Peace at University of Stanford in California.
Edward Teller to the end of his day’s performed public service. He popularized his ideas in books, lectures and interviews. When I was studying Teller’s biography, I was thinking about Teller’s uncommon life. I will try expressing my considerations regarding this problem in the next journal.