 He toured the state and convinced the Alaskan delegation and the Anchorage and Fairbanks Chambers of Commerce of the economic benefits that would result from a permanently open port at Point Hope.Academics at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks were not so easily convinced.The University's professors demanded to know how Dr. Teller and the AEC would identify the impacts of a nuclear explosion with no pre-blast knowledge of the land and its inhabitants.