In the movie, Oppenheimer is also shown welcoming multiple Jewish refugee physicists to the Manhattan Project facility. Teller, played by Jewish actor Benny Safdie, is one of them, even though he ...

View the film chapter “The Hearings.” Then, as a class, write and perform a play based on Edward Teller’s testimony against Oppenheimer in the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearing.

In the case of his newest film, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively revealed that Benny Safdie, who last played Edward Teller in Nolan's Oscar-winning movie Oppenheimer, will be joining The ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the former director of Los Alamos. More recently Teller has been an outspohen advocate of defensive weap- ons, including the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative. Born in Budapest ...

It was, however, one of Oppenheimer's former colleagues who would give some of the most damning testimony against him. When Edward Teller took the stand, he said, "In a great number of cases I ...

(The 2006 book The Bomb in the Basement by Michael Karpin reports that Oppenheimer visited Israel with Edward Teller in 1952 and that they had a lengthy meeting with Ben-Gurion to discuss ...