Register of the Edward Teller Papers, 1930-2003

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Descriptive Summary Title: Edward Teller Papers, Date (inclusive): 1930-2003 Collection Number: 76074 Creator: Teller, Edward, 1908- Physical Description: 632 manuscript boxes, 20 oversize boxes, 1 cubic foot box, 1 card file box, 1 oversize folder, 2 album boxes, 11 slide boxes, 6 envelopes, 5 motion picture film reels, 6 phonorecords, digital files.(265 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California 94305-6010 Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, studies, memoranda, printed matter, photographs, motion picture film, video tapes, sound recordings, and memorabilia, relating to chemical, molecular and nuclear physics; development of new energy resources; national energy research planning; space exploration; and national and international security issues, including nuclear weapons and arms control. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Language: English. Access Collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Edward Teller Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information

Register of the Edward Teller 76074 2 Papers, 1930-2003 Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1976. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. Access Points Nuclear energy. Nuclear weapons. Energy policy--United States. Physics. United States--Politics and government. United States--Foreign relations. United States--Armed Forces. United States--Defenses. Arms control. Space sciences. Video tapes. Phonotapes. Phonorecords. Slides (Photography) Moving-pictures. 15 January Born, Budapest, Hungary 1908 1926-1928 Student, Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany 1928 Student, University of Munich, Germany 1929-1931 Research associate, University of Leipzig, Germany 1930 Ph.D., University of Leipzig 1931-1933 Research associate, Guttingen, Germany 1934 Married Augusta (Mici) Harkanyi Rockefeller fellow, Copenhagen, Netherlands 1934-1935 Lecturer, University of London, United Kingdom 1935-1941 Professor of physics, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 1941 Naturalized, Washington, D.C. 1941-1942 Professor of physics, Columbia University, New York City 1942-1943 Physicist, University of Chicago, Illinois 1942-1946 Physicist, Manhattan Engineer District of Columbia 1943-1946 Physicist, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico 1946-1952 Professor of physics, University of Chicago 1949 Author (with Francis Owen Rice), The Structure of Matter 1949-1952 Assistant director, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 1952-1953 Consultant, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California 1953-1960 Professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley 1954-1958, Associate director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 1960-1975 1958 Author (with Albert L. Latter), Our Nuclear Future 1958-1960 Director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 1960-1970 Professor of physics-at-large, University of California 1962 Author (with Allen Brown), The Legacy of Hiroshima 1963-1966 Professor emeritus and chairman, Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis and Livermore 1968 Author (with Gerald W. Johnson, Wilson K. Talley, and Gary H. Higgins), The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives 1969 Author (with Segre, Kaplan, and Schiff), Great Men of Physics

Register of the Edward Teller 76074 3 Papers, 1930-2003 1970 Author, General Remarks on Electronic Structure and the Hydrogen Molecular Ion, and General Theory of Electron Structure 1970-1975 University professor, University of California 1972 Author, The Miracle of Freedom 1975 Author, Energy: A Plan for Action 1975- University professor emeritus, University of California Director emeritus and consultant, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Senior research fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California 1977 Author, Nuclear Energy in the Developing World 1979 Author, Energy from Heaven and Earth 1980 Author, The Pursuit of Simplicity 1987 Author, Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology 1989 Presidential Citizens Medal, 1991 Author, Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics 1998 Awarded a Magyarsag Hirneveert Dij, the highest official Hungarian government award 2001 Author, Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics 2002 Department of Energy Gold Award July 2003 Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom 9 September Died at his home on Stanford campus 2003 Scope and Content of Collection Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, studies, memoranda, printed matter, photographs, motion picture film, video tapes, sound recordings, and memorabilia, relating to chemical, molecular and nuclear physics; development of new energy resources; national energy research planning; space exploration; and national and international security issues, including nuclear weapons and arms control.

Box 1 Biographical File, 1954-1989 Scope and Content Note Article, correspondence, get-well cards, schedules, clippings, and guest book, arranged alphabetically by physical form

Box 1, Folder 1 Article on Edward Teller by Robert Coughlan, 1954 July 27. Typescript (intended for publication in Life Magazine) Folder 2 Guest book of event honoring Edward Teller's 75th birthday Folder 3 Get-well cards, 1989 April Folder 4 Subject file - Australia. Correspondence, schedules, and clippings relating to Edward Teller's trip to Australia and visit with Lang Hancock in June 1981 Folder 5 Miscellaneous Boxes 2-4 Correspondence File, 1954-1987 Scope and Content Note Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent

Box 2, Folder 1 General Folder 2 Adams, Lofty A., 1982-1983 Folder 3 Antonelli, John W., Jr., 1977-1978 Folder 4 Applegath, Albert W., 1979-1984 Folder 5 Bandtel, Kenneth C., 1979-1984 Folder 6 Bethe, Hans A., 1954 Folder 7 Billman, Kennteh W., 1979 Folder 8 Black, Edwin F., 1984-1985 Folder 9 Bund Gegen Anpassung, 1989 Folder 10 Courant, R., 1954 Folder 11 Davenport, James F., 1980-1983

Folder 12 Fercsey, John, 1980 Folder 13 Fermi, Laura, 1954 Folder 14 Glanzberg, Al (New Mexican), 1955-1963 Folder 15 Harrison, Donald C., 1986-1987 Folder 16 Hefner, Robert A., III, 1978-1982 Folder 17 Heppenheimer, Thomas A., 1984-1985 Folder 18 Hickey, Jack, 1984 Kearny, Cresson H. Folder 19 1980 Folder 20 1981-1983 Box 3, Folder 1 1984-1986 Folder 2 Konnyu, Ernest L., 1985 Folder 3 Libby, Leona M., 1974-1984 Folder 4 Makk, Americo, Eva, and A. B., 1983-1985 Folder 5 Mehnert, Klaus, 1978-1983 Folder 6 Menges, Constantine C., 1980 Folder 7 Metzger, H. Peter, 1978-1980 Folder 8 Mizuki, Mikiso, 1984 Folder 9 Owens, Gwinn, 1975-1983 Folder 10 Rainsbury, Rebecca, 1976 Folder 11 Renz, Peter, 1984 Folder 12 Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1975-1979 Box 4, Folder 1 Seifritz, Walter, 1980-1982 Folder 2 Stewart, G. W., 1954 Folder 3 Strauss, Lewis L., 1954 Folder 4 Symons, William, Jr., 1978 Folder 5 Younger, Evelle J., 1978-1980 Folder 6 Zakkay, Victor, 1980 Boxes 4-10 Speeches and Writings, 1954-1987 Scope and Content Note Articles, book drafts and manuscripts, interviews, and speeches, arranged chronologically by title

Box 4, Folder 7 "The Development of the Hydrogen Bomb," 1954 October 7. Typescript Folder 8 Appearance, Youth Wants to Know, National Broadcasting Corporation radio broadcast, 1955 August 7. Printed copy of transcript Folder 9 Our Nuclear Future (with Albert L. Latter), 1958. Typescript of draft entitled "Atoms on the Loose" Folder 10 "Outer Space Travel: What Is and Is not Possible?" 1960 October 19. Typed first page of book draft Box 5, Folder 1 The Legacy of Hiroshima, 1962. Typescript Folder 2 Commencement speech, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1962 June 10. Typescript Folder 3 "Needed Now: Transatlantic ABM Defense and Union," 1963 October 3. Speech, International Movement for Atlantic Union, Washington, D.C. Printed copy Folder 4 "The Reluctant Revolutionary," 1964. Paul Anthony Brick Lecture, University of Missouri, Columbia. Printed copy Folder 5 Speech, Group of House Opponents of Proposed Atlantic Union Exploratory Convention, Washington, D.C., 1974 July 31. Typescript Folder 6 Energy from Heaven and Earth, 1979. Typescript of draft entitled "Adventures of Energy from Cradle to Adolescence" Box 6, Folder 1-2 Energy from Heaven and Earth, 1979. Typescript Box 7, Folder 1 "The Energy Crisis: No Contingency Plan," 1980. Interview, World Research, Inc. Printed copy Folder 2 The Pursuit of Simplicity, 1980. Typescript Folder 3 Interview by John Singleton, Australia, 1981 June. Typed transcript of radio broadcast and call-in period

Folder 4 "Free Enterprise and Energy from Heaven and Earth," 1981 June 12. Seminar, Council of Resources and Energy, Indooroopilly, Australia. Announcements, typescript, and typed transcript of question and answer period Folder 5 Speech on Energy from Heaven and Earth, Hoover Institution Book Talks, Stanford, California, 1982 January 12 Box 8, Folder 1-6 Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology, 1987. Typescript Box 9, Folder 1-13 Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology, 1987. Typescript Box 10, Better a Shield than a Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology, 1987. Folder 1-15 Typescript Boxes 11-18 Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, 1973-1976 Scope and Content Note Correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, essays, minutes, and membership and distribution lists, arranged alphabetically by physical form

Box 11, Folder 1 General Folder 2-5 Background material (for Panel I) Folder 6 Contributions by Michael J. Deutch (mostly for Panel I) Correspondence and memoranda Folder 7 General Folder 8 For Panel I Folder 9 Distribution lists (for Panel I) Box 12, Folder 1-2 Essays for Volume II, edited by Irving Kristol and Paul Weaver Box 13, Folder 1 Membership lists Folder 2 Minutes of meetings of Panel I, 1973-1974 Folder 3 Press release, 1973 November 18 Reports (three of which were eventually published in Volume I). Includes some correspondence and comments Panel I (Edward Teller was asked to write the panel's report, entitled "Energy: A Program for Action") Folder 4 Undated fragments Folder 5 1973 Folder 6-7 1974 Box 14, Folder 1-2 1974 Folder 3-4 1975 Box 15, Folder 1-6 1975 Box 16, Folder 1 1975 Folder 2 1976 Folder 3-5 Panel II Folder 6-8 Panel III Box 17, Folder 1 Panel V Box 18, Folder 1-2 Panel VI Folder 3 Panel VII Folder 4 Proofs (mostly of Panel I's report) Folder 5 Review of 14-volume series Boxes 19-34 Subject File, 1973-1984. Scope and Content Note Reports, studies, working papers, correspondence, notes, memoranda, testimony, statements, press releases, minutes, statistics, tables, printed matter, and maps, arranged alphabetically by topic

Box 19, Folder 1 Agricultural research and technology Folder 2-3 Ames Research Center, NASA Folder 4 Arms control Folder 5 Art and technology Box 20, Folder 1 Campbell, W. Glenn

Folder 2 Civil defense Folder 3 Computed tomography in medical research Folder 4 Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science Energy Folder 5-7 General Box 21, Folder 1-4 General Box 22, Folder 1 General Folder 2-4 Australia Folder 5 Biomass Folder 6 Canada Box 23, Folder 1 Coal Folder 2 Conservation Folder 3 Consumption Folder 4 Conversion devices Folder 5 Developing countries Folder 6 Fusion Box 24, Folder 1-3 Fusion Folder 4-6 Gas. See also Petroleum Folder 7 Geothermal Folder 8 Helium Israel. See Solar Folder 9 Methanol Box 25, Folder 1-5 Nuclear Box 26, Folder 1-2 Nuclear Folder 3-5 Petroleum Folder 6 Portugal Box 27, Folder 1 Solar Folder 2 Storage devices Folder 3 Taiwan United States Folder 4 General - Carter's energy policy Folder 5-8 California Box 28, Folder 1-3 New York Folder 4 Wave. See also Australia Folder 5 Wind Folder 6 Energy and the environment Folder 7 First Strike (television documentary) Folder 8 Futurism Box 29, Folder 1 Holography Folder 2 India Folder 3 International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology Folder 4 Meteorology Folder 5 New York Times Nuclear arms Folder 6 Freeze Folder 7 Proliferation Folder 8 Nuclear safety and artificial intelligence Folder 9 Nuclear wastes Box 30, Folder 1 Nuclear wastes Oppenheimer, J. Robert Folder 2 Transcript of hearing before the Personnel Security Board, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., 1954 April 12 -May 6 Folder 3 Statements issued by the Atomic Energy Commission, 1954 June 16 and 29 Folder 4 Press conference held by director Norris E. Bradbury, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1954 September 24. Includes press releases, annotated by Edward Teller Folder 5 Miscellaneous

Box 31 Clippings, 1954 Box 32 Magazine articles, 1954 April-September. See also Box 36 Box 33, Folder 1-2 Physics Folder 3 Satellite remote sensing programs Folder 4 Shell Oil Company Space technology Folder 5 Nuclear Folder 6 Solar Folder 7 Telecommunications in an energy crisis Folder 8 Toth Aluminum Corporation United States Box 34, Folder 1 Foreign relations - Taiwan Politics and government Folder 2 Presidential elections- 1984 Folder 3 Science Advisory Group meeting, 1975 July 17. Minutes Boxes 35-36 Printed Matter, 1954-1976. Scope and Content Note Journals, magazines, and book

Box 35-36 Journals, magazines, and book Boxes 37-45 Memorabilia, 1954-1973. Scope and Content Note Awards, citations, resolutions, medals, plaques, honorary degrees, and academic gown

Box 37-45 Awards, citations, resolutions, medals, plaques, honorary degrees, and academic gown Boxes 46-65; Film Audio-Visual Material, 1955-1995. shelf; Record Scope and Content Note cabinet Speeches, interviews, conversation and debate transcripts, and tributes, including some tapes by or concerning others. Consists of videotape cassettes, phonotapes, phonotape cassettes, microcassettes, magnetic tapes, and computer files arranged by physical form

Videotape cassettes (97) Box 46 Undated Box 47 1976-1983 Box 48 1983 Box 49 1983-1988 Box 64 1988-1992 Box 50 1988-1989 Box 51 1989. Includes typed transcript for interview of 1989 August 25 Box 52 1989-1990 Box 65 1990-1993. Includes transcript of an interview of G. Foster Evans, relating to relations between Teller and the physicist Stanislaw Ulam and to various aspects of economics and physics Box 53, 64 1991-1992 Box 65 1992-1995 Phonotapes (44) Box 54-55 Undated Box 56 1959-1972 Box 57 1972-1975 Phonotape cassettes (178) Box 58 Undated Box 65 1959 Box 59 1970s Box 60 1980-1983 Box 61 1986-1989 Box 62 1990-1992

Box 65 1993-1995 Box 63 Microcassettes, 1983-1989 (5) Magnetic tapes, n.d. and 1991 (2) Computer disk, n.d. (1) Scope and Content Note Disk contains text transcript of a discussion about John von Neumann by Denes Nagy (moderator), Edward Teller, Eugene P. Wigner, and Nicholas von Neumann at Arizona State University, undated

Film shelf Motion picture film reels, 1955-1966 1) Edward Teller addressing unidentified audience, n.d. (16mm, silent, Ektachrome) 2) "Silent Force for Good," The Christopher Program, n.d. (late 1950s or early 1960s). Interview by the Reverend Christopher on the good uses of nuclear energy (16mm, sound, black and white, 507 ft.) 3) "Youth Wants to Know," NBC Television, 1955. Edward Teller answers questions from students on physics, with Steve McCormick moderating. Includes footage at end of program of Frederick De Hoffman from Los Alamos speaking on the Geneva Convention (16mm, sound, black and white, ca. 1000 ft.) 4) Appearance, Face the Nation, CBS, 1966 April 3. Edward Teller answers questions on Chinese nuclear weapons, deployment of defense systems, and international arms control (16mm, sound, black and white, ca. 1000 ft.) 5) Duplicate of 4) Record cabinet Phonorecords, 1958-1984 1) Interview, Reader's Digest, 1958 February 2) Appearance, Meet the Press, NBC radio broadcast, 1963 September 1 3) Duplicate of 2) 4) "The Size and Nature of the Universe" and "The Theory of Relativity," n.d. Conversations by Edward Teller 5) Duplicate of 4) 6) "Leo Szilard: Inventor of the Atomic Bomb, 1933," 1984. Recollections by Leo Szilard Map case Oversize Material, 1954-1963. Scope and Content Note Drawings and photo collage

Map case Drawings depicting Edward Teller, 1956-1963, and photo collage depicting him with others, 1954 Photographs, 1918-1964

Photo File 76074 Photographic prints

Envelope A 1 print of a portrait of Edward Teller; 1 print depicting Edward Teller's wife Augusta, 1964; 3 contact sheets of prints depicting Edward Teller, Envelope B 7 prints depicting Edward Teller alone and with others, undated Envelope C 4 prints depicting Edward Teller and General O'Neill at the SAMSO (Space and Missile Systems Organization) Advisory Group luncheon, April, 1968 Envelope D 1 print depicting Edward Teller and standing next to his portrait and its artists, Eva and Americo Makk; and 4 prints of Eva and America Makk with President Reagan and of their portraits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, 1984 Envelope E 1 print depicting participants of the Annual Military Research Associate briefing, March 12, 1969; and 1 print of an unidentified scientist at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, undated Oversize Envelope 1 contact sheet of prints depicting Leo Szilard, undated mF

Album: fG 5 mounted prints of Los Alamos and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; 2 prints depicting Edward Teller with others; 1 print depicting Edward Teller with wife Augusta; 5 prints depicting Edward Teller; 1 print depicting a nuclear explosion; and 1 print depicting a crater in Nevada, undated Album: fH 5 albums of prints depicting Edward Teller at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, May 12, 1962; at the 101st anniversary celebration of engineering education at Pennsylvania Military College, Philadelphia, April 2, 1963; with J. Robert Oppenheimer and others, 1964; at the Mayo Clinic Centennial Symposium, Rochester, Minnesota, September 17-18, 1964; in South Africa, September 1973; Slide Cabinet: 200 slides depicting alternate energy sources, 1918 Boxes 1-11

Reading room Scanned images of photographic prints circa 1924-1997 workstation Scope and Content Note Circa 480 image files (counting both front and reverse) scanned from photographic prints. The original prints are not part of the collection. A spreadsheet provides some descriptive information, but there may not be a one-to-one correlation between items in the spreadsheet and digital images at Hoover

Box: 66-654 Incremental Materials Scope and Content Note This addition to the collection has not yet been fully described. Please contact the Hoover Institution Archives for more information at [email protected]