nuclear physicist Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his role in the development of nuclear weapons at Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. Often called the “father of the hydrogen ...

Thermonuclear weapons are nuclear weapons whose design ... reactor – and Hungarian-American theoretical physicist Edward Teller. Fermi wondered if the explosion of a fission weapon could ignite ...

Meanwhile, physicist Edward Teller and Atomic Energy Commissioner ... the various division directors at Los Alamos that the nuclear weapons program should be expanded in several ways.