Also abit belated, I wanted to note (with a sigh of relief?) ‘father of the H-bomb’ Edward Teller’s death at 95. The physicist was a Hungarian whose flight from Hitler may have shaped him into an incessant proponent of an endless destabilizing arms race; he was considered a dangerous hawk even by most of his nuclear-weapons-development cronies. His star remained prominent with rightwing American administrations; most recently, he helped to persuade Reagan to commit to the harebrained Starwars scheme that lives on as the current administration’s National Missile Defense strategy. To be fair, he regretted the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, favoring inviting the Japanese to a cautionary demonstration explosion first.