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How do you do? Ladies and gentlemen, In this age of scientific exploration and development, there is one man who has made a particularly outstanding contribution that I'm proud to introduce to you today. That man is known throughout the world as the father of the hydrogen bomb.

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Of course. I speak of Doctor Edward Teller. I'm delighted to have you here, sir. Is my guest. And have you have the opportunity of discussing some of your views with the people of Florida? First thing I'd like to ask you now, doctors. Have you left the University of California and working here in Washington?

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Are you spending half your time here and half your time there? Oh, no. I am in Washington only for an extremely short type. I am at the University of California in Berkeley. At the moment, I am working in one of the university contact in the Livermore Laboratory.

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But I am permanently attached to the University of California as a common professor. Well, I know there's no such thing as a common professor, but anyway, Doctor, I know that you're greatly interested in the education system that we have here in the United States and whether or not we are keeping up with our counterparts, the Soviet Union.

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In this matter of education, I wonder if you would give us your views on that? Well, I I should say that this country has throughout the decade, done a wonderful job. I think this is the first campaign which mass education has been introduced and taken really seriously, in which it was recognized that education is something that all of us must have.

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And I think our education is better today than it ever has been. But there is one fly in the air. The Russians, in the past twenty of safety have done even better. And unless we do very much more about education, it will be left behind in science and eventually in technology.

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And I think that this is a very great and very concrete dangerous. You have any suggestions as to what we should do in order to step up our emphasis on education? Well, uh, it is the most difficult question, and I'm quite sure that a brief suggestion cannot do justice to it at our In fact, I don't know about the right procedures, but really high procedure is that people should get interested in education in general to a greater extent and very particularly in technical education, in the difficult parts of education, like science, mathematics and languages.

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Because we are changing the science, the world each decade, and if the sovereign of our country, nearly the people are not sufficiently oriented, then they are going to make mistakes right now. Do you believe that the type of education which the Russian Children and young people are getting is Bible to make of them sort of mechanical robot people who will not have particular personality?

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Or do you think that type of education is still good? I don't think that it's any education in the world that can educate personality out of people. I think that the Russian education has certain great advantages. They make their Children work hard. Perhaps they have the mistake or specializing too so to obtain them what they should do to too great an extent, because I do not like they emphasize technical matter, and this in today's age is a very sound thing to do and the emphasis language which in today's contracting words, is again a very important thing.

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The people in the United States have spent much too little time in learning the languages of their neighbors. And doctor, let me ask you one rather difficult question which you may not really want to answer. But I'm gonna ask you anyway. And that is, as a scientist who's aware and alert on these things.

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How do you think that we stand in our development of technical weapons? How do we compare with the Soviet Union? I am very glad to ask you this question because I had a very clear answer. I do not know where are you satisfied with the rate of development that we're undergoing here?

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I am never. You're never satisfied. Well, thank you very much. Cells are good answers. Thank you very much, Ladies and gentlemen, for looking and listening. And I hope you'll do the same next week at this same time, Doctor Edward Teller. How does the educational system in the United States compare with that of the Soviet Union?

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I think that we have done very well and that we are doing very bad. The Russians, however, have placed exceedingly great emphasis on their education. And I'm afraid I have to say that from all indications the Russians are doing better. Still, they are emphasizing hard projects like science, mathematics, languages, subjects which in today's contracting world, where we have to load the languages of our neighbors, uh, extremely subject technical subjects which influence our daily living and can make it comfortable and can make it safe.

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There are these things the Russians have done a wonderful job, and we have to do more than we are doing, Thank you very much.