Birthday quote

Edward Teller
Hungarian-American theoretical physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb",

Born January 15, 1908 in Budapest.
Died September 9, 2003 in Stanford, California,

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

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