1. Edward Teller, in particular, believed the fusion bomb to be theoretically possible.

2. Thebrainchild of Manhattan Project physicist Edward Teller, ProjectExcalibur was supposed to fire off atomic-powered lasers from land orspace at incoming missiles.

3. Lightman's chapter on Edward Teller is a review of Teller's memoirs , first published in these pages in 2002.

4. One of the dictionary definitions of hubris cites Edward Teller (the godfather of modern geoengineering).

5. Take, for example, Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb.

6. During a briefing on intermediate-range bombers at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, he had a fateful conversation with the legendary refugee scientists Edward Teller and John von Neumann.

7. We won the race for the atomic bomb by harnessing the genius of scientists fleeing Europe, such as the Hungarian Edward Teller, the Italian Enrico Fermi, and, of course, the German Albert Einstein.