Those were the big-idea-that's-stone-crazy days...other gems: - Orion-drive space battleship (JFK is said to have freaked out upon being shown a model) - Supersonic Low-Altitude Missile (aka Pluto): how do you flight-test a Mach 3+ hot reactor?
Right. Teller was very interested in these ideas. The people who tended to not be as interested were Presidents (Eisenhower and Kennedy both shot down "very high yield" weapon proposals) and the military (who liked big bombs only up to a point).
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