Irvine

Edward Teller to Speak: Edward Teller, credited with the development of the American hydrogen bomb and a proponent of strategic nuclear defense, will speak at UC Irvine April 3. Teller, a UC Berkeley physicist and former director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, a leading nuclear weapons research center, will be lecturing on the “Strategic Defense Initiative.” The talk is the second of a three-part series of examining President Reagan’s proposed “Star Wars” defense system. The noon lecture, which is open to the public, is sponsored by the Cooperative Outdoor Program, the university’s physics department and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.