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Ted Taylor

Ted Taylor, a prominent U.S. Physicist, was born in Mexico City in 1925, the son of a daughter of a congegationalist missionary and a director of the YMCA.

He is a famous designer of small nuclear weapons, and directed Project Orion, for General Atomic[?], with his friend Lew Allen as contract manager.

Beginning in 1966 he advocated nuclear disarmament, and worked as a consultant to the United States Atomic Energy Commission evaluating the International Atomic Energy Agency in regard to nuclkear non-proliferation.

As of 2001, he was retired in New York City.



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