Peter Goodchild is an award-winning television producer and the former head of both Science and Features & Drama at the BBC. His production of Oppenheimer won a British Academy Award and spawned an acclaimed biography.
Peter Goodchild demonstrates in this sensitive and fascinating
biography [that] Teller’s danger arose from the fact that he was
both a brilliant scientist and a skilled political manipulator—but
unfortunately also a man of limited wisdom. It would be easy to
ridicule [Teller], but Goodchild, to his credit, resists shallow
scorn. Teller emerges as a complicated individual whose actions
were always logical, if rather warped. He becomes rather more
frightening than I had ever previously imagined, for it is no
longer possible to dismiss him as a madman.
*Scotland on Sunday*
Edward Teller, the ‘Father of the H-bomb,’ emerges in this readable
biography as a brilliant, insecure, sometimes paranoid figure with
a significant—and decidedly ambiguous—historical legacy… Goodchild,
a BBC television producer and author of a biography of Oppenheimer,
offers a detailed, studiously balanced portrait drawn from archives
and interviews with Teller himself and many who knew (and loved or
loathed) him.
*Publishers Weekly*
An excellent biography of a great physicist-politician and an
interesting account of most of the science and politics involved
with nuclear weapons.
*Choice*
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