[PatrickHenry]

It is astounding that a man who had that much impact on the 20th Century gets so little recognition for his acheivements.

Not really astounding. Consider these two men:

1. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the A-Bomb.

2. Edward Teller, father of the H-Bomb.

Oppenheimer is lionized in intellectual circles, Teller is demonized. Curious, what? So how do we account for this paradox? Hint: One of the two was a leftie, the other was outspokenly anti-communist. I leave it to the reader to connect the dots.

[yarddog]

I think you have it figured out.

[longshadow]

Oppenheimer is lionized in intellectual circles, Teller is demonized. Curious, what? So how do we account for this paradox? Hint: One of the two was a leftie, the other was outspokenly anti-communist. I leave it to the reader to connect the dots.

Surely, surely this is just a coincidence! You don't for a minute suppose that the same communist apoligists who proclaimed Alger Hiss wasn't a Soviet spy for 50 years would demonize a great scientist like Teller just because.... excuse me, what's that you say? "Venona Papers"? Hmmmm, let's see what they say......

Ohhhhhhh; .............never mind.