Dr. Strangegrave, Or How I Learned to Stop Breathing and Love the Berm

Edward Teller, Father of the H-Bomb, died yesterday at the age of 95. Teller escaped Adolph Hitler's science corps during WWII, fleeing to America where he became a leader of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret program that led to the development of the atomic bomb. Unlike many of his colleagues, Teller encouraged the development of a strong nuclear capability as a form of deterrence, and encouraged Ronald Reagan to waste billions on the Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as the failed Star Wars program.