Also Edward Teller is an... interesting choice of nuclear physics idol, considering he was one of the only Manhattan Project physicists who saw the bombs go off and instead of thinking "my god, what have we done" went "aw hell yes let's use these puppies for everything all the time!!"
Naturally this meant he got put in charge of a bunch of stuff by the military, who loved having a scientist they could turn to that would say "as a matter of fact, yes we do need enough bombs to vaporize every human being on the planet 5 times over, and here are my Science Reasons why"