Nobel Prize-winning colleague Isidor Isaac Rabi:
"I do really feel it would have been a better world without Teller... I think he is an enemy of humanity... A danger to all that is important..."
He appeared to be the foremost proponent on the entire planet of a runaway arms race.—Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove
He is remarkably unconcerned about the human misery which might result from his projects.—Andrei Sakharov and Edward Teller: Two Ethical Profiles
| maniacal enthusiasm for weapons of global destructiveness | acute vulnerability to personal slights and professional indignities |
| childhood insecurities of a friendless student prodigy | adult aggressiveness of a politically influential mature scientist |