Volume 49, Number 9 · May 23, 2002
Megaton Man
By Alan Lightman
Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics
by Edward Teller, with Judith L. Shoolery
Perseus, 628 pp., $35.00
In late 1951, on an overnight train from Chicago to Washington, Edward Teller dreamed that he was alone, in a battlefield trench like the ones that had so terrified him as a child in Hungary during the war. The nine men attacking his position exceeded by one the eight bullets in his rifle—a cold mathematical analysis even in the confused and foggy world of a nightmare.
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