A radiant hour with a man who has spent half a century at the highest levels of

nuclear physics and has never checked his conscience at the laboratory door. The

discussion begins with the Space Shield--SDI--but Mr. Buckley is soon leading his

guest into reminiscences. Dr. Teller: "We now know that the dropping of the bomb did

not change a single vote in the Japanese war cabinet: three of them were for

unconditional surrender before Hiroshima, and three for fighting on for better terms, and

not a single vote was changed, except that the Emperor violated the constitution and

appealed to the people.... Had we demonstrated, had we dropped an atomic bomb at

30,000 feet over Tokyo Bay that would have lit up the evening sky, that would have been seen and heard by 10 million Japanese--heard like thunder--not a single person would

have been killed. I think the Emperor would have acted."