he went to the national science fair. was actually on television with him in 1963 in albuquerque at the national science fair. when i graduated from harvard he interviewed me for a graduate fellowship but at that point he was very clear. he said i am looking for people who want to design hydrogen warheads. your physics will be very valuable designing new and better hydrogen warheads. he offered me a scholarship. he said los alamo's, livermore, m.i.t., you name it, we can arrange for you to work there. but my interests began to veer off in the direction of when i was a child, wondering what was einstein's unfinished theory? i wanted to work on an explosion bigger than the hydrogen bomb. i wanted to work on the big bang, the creation of the universe itself. for me, a hydrogen bomb was a footnote. i wanted to work on the creation of the universe. brian: here is edward teller. this video goes back to 1974. [video clip] >> one of the seismic events that convinced me to work on this was the speech. the day after hitler's invaded