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Former California Sen. Tom Hayden
"They [Slate, a reform-minded Berkeley student political party] took me to see the Livermore Laboratories, where most of America's nuclear weapons development still takes place under the auspices of the University of California. There I secured an interview with Dr. Edward Teller, a prototype for the Dr. Strangelove movie character. Teller patiently described how nuclear war could be survived and, in any event, why it was 'better to be dead than red.' After hearing his arguments, I signed a statement supporting an August 6 [1960] pro-disarmament rally commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
From Reunion: A Memoir, by Tom Hayden (1988)
Larry King, TV talk show host
"Another really tough quest was physicist Edward Teller, the 'father of the H-bomb.' Teller was a visiting professor at the University of Miami, and another professor who was a listener persuaded Teller to appear on...