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Edward Teller, the ultra-hawkish father of the hydrogen bomb, died last 
week. Defending his work in an interview with Scientific American a few 
years back, Teller averred that if the U.S. had not developed the H-bomb, 
we'd all be speaking Russian now. 

The interviewer refrained from pointing out that had we pursued most of 
Teller's other nuclear programs by now, we'd all be speaking cockroach.


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[Selected by Jim Griffith @ rec.humor.funny]