The testimony of one of the greatest physicists of our age. and the greatest living scientist to have participated in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. That. of course. is Hans Bethe. Hans Bethe was the head of the theoretical physics division at Los Alamos. He was standing next to Dr. Oppenheimer when the first nuclear test took place. He received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1967. There is scarcely an award this country could provide. except the Presidential Medal of Freedom. he has not received. He is a man of transparent goodness. energy. An immigrant from Germany. and a teacher. He still meets in seminars at Cornell University. In 1977.
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