Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Bomb me a river
Noo! Nuclear! Our good editorial staff at the Daily Cal says of a proposed name change for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to be named after Edward Teller, nuclear guy who did some stuff and defended nukes.
Ernest Lawrence was appointed the first head of the lab after inventing the cyclotron. Renaming the lab would essentially ignore his numerous contributions to the scientific community.
Well, you could easily argue that not renaming the lab would essentially ignore Teller's numerous contributions to the scientific community. You can't name everything after everyone.
“Edward Teller was the model for Dr. Strangelove, and Dr. Strangelove is a symbol that everyone recognizes as a symbol of the danger and insanity of nuclear weapons,” said Jacqueline Cabasso, the executive director of Western States Legal Foundation, an anti-nuclear group, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.
Yep, those dangerous nuclear weapons. Thanks to the continued research of nuclear weapons since World War II, huge numbers have lost their lives from them. . . Gee, I hope I'm not getting my facts wrong.
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