Of Martians, aerodynamics, and fathering the bomb

In the last sentence of Barton Bernstein’s book review, he referred to Edward Teller as the father of the hydrogen bomb.

Teller was the speaker at a small meeting I attended in Berkeley, California, in the mid-1970s. After his talk, I asked a question and addressed him as the father of the H-bomb. Teller immediately interrupted, saying, “I am not the father of the H-bomb. I have never received a Father’s Day card from an H-bomb.”