Edward Teller

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; 3 DEFENSE Knowledge Is Power { over is . ae as autumn of 1957, the U.S. is reluctantly grasping the full. unwel- come meaning of Russian-made metal ob- jects orbiting around the earth. Sputnik I and Sputnik II have painfully fractured the U.S.'s contented expectation that. be- hind an impenetrable shield of technologi- cal superiority, the nation could go on with the pursuit of happiness and busi- ness as usual this year and the next and the next. Now the U.S. has to live with ihe...