Ed was most well known for his relentless pursuit of the H bomb (the Super) and for running over the top of Robert Oppenheimer every chance he got.
A recently declassified (originally intended to be unclassified but then abruptly classified, then edited, then declassified?) talk by former director Harold Agnew reminds us that Agnew didn't have as much love for Oppy as some of us do.
In this photo for his LANL badge, he looks like a white collar criminal being booked, or maybe a John in one of those stings where they instead of the prostitutes get rounded up, photographed and their pictures placed on billboards or in the paper.
Here is Super Ed at his desk during his tenure as laboratory director for LLNL in the late 50's.
2 comments:
So what are you saying Doc? Are you a fan of "this" Ed or not?
I've been wondering where the 'rebels' are that historically got things done, at least scientifically.
I'm a peon nobody but even I can see that cowering in a foxhole/cubicle while the chaos reigns has a high probability of ending up with a massive calamity for LANL.
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