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Pictured: Edward Teller, proud inventor of the thermonuclear weapon, at age 32
Working on the A-bomb was already bad enough, and if he had a soul it would have been damned by that. Seeing Hiroshima and Nagasaki and continuing to put his whole back into developing Super marks him as one of the world's True Fucking Bastards, right up there with infamous rapist, murderer, and head of the Soviet nuclear program Beria.
even before they dropped the bombs, Szilárd and 70 other Manhattan Project scientists attempted to tell Truman that the bomb must be used only as a demonstration; when they brought their petition to Teller to help circulate it at Los Alamos, he brought it to Oppenheimer, who told him the scientists should stay out of it; the petition got no signatures at Los Alamos and never made it past the incoming Secretary of State
Teller soon was a participant at Robert Oppenheimer's 1942 summer conference on the development of a fission bomb held at the University of California, Berkeley, where he guided discussion towards the idea of creating his "Super" bomb, which would hypothetically be many times more powerful than the yet-undeveloped fission weapon. Teller assumed creating the fission bomb would be nothing more than an engineering problem, and that the "Super" provided a much more interesting theoretical challenge.
motherfucker!
Oppenheimer: I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.
Beinbridge: Now we are all sons of bitches.
Teller:
