Finding no love for "Dr. Strangelove" Teller
Via SFChronicle

Long dead and still controversial..geesh! Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine (San Diego County), proposed renaming the Livermore nuclear weapons lab east of San Francisco after Teller. Of course, Edward Teller is known as the (co) inventor of H- BOMB and famous for advocating nuclear weapons. Renaming a lab after him is creating the controvery. It seems there are quite a number of poeple who are opposed to the idea. Part of the report says:
Clearly, the renaming proposal upset some scientists who monitor U.S. weapons policy, especially those who respect the memory of the man for whom the lab is presently named: Berkeley physicist Ernest O. Lawrence. "Teller's contributions come nowhere close to Lawrence's. And Teller is closely associated with some of the most painful, and personal, controversies in postwar science policy."

Hmm. if one's going to name a building, a lab in this case, I feel the the officials should weigh in more who made the best contribution. Good ones for the benefit of the people and not for one's self.