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Who strongly backed Edward Teller's campaign for a second nuclear weapons laboratory?

  • Robert Oppenheimer

  • Albert Einstein

  • Harry Truman

  • Ernest Lawrence

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Ernest Lawrence strongly backed Edward Teller's campaign for a second nuclear weapons laboratory. Lawrence was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the director of the University of California, Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory. Teller was a Hungarian-American physicist who was a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb. He believed that the United States needed a second nuclear weapons laboratory to compete with the Soviet Union.
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