while in anchorage, we visited potter marsh, thunderbird falls, and portage glacier. [birds chirping] [water running] >> the glacier. > see if you can get -- [wind whistling] teller, whoedward was the so-called father of the h-bomb, came up to alaska unannounced and unveiled his plan to create an instant harbor on the coast of alaska by burying and detonating multiple thermonuclear bombs. it would blow up a gigantic crater a mile-long. dirt would be ejected as high as the stratosphere. you would have this instant harbor. it might glow-in-the-dark, but it would be a harbor. the atomic energy commission was part of the federal government. they were an agency of almost unlimited funding. consider me, we didn't we had to answer to anybody but the president. nothing congress, not anybody. thwarted iner been anything they wanted to do until project chariot. of eskimoillage people gave them their first defeat. like theseally atomic scientists came up to alaska with nuclear bombs in their back pockets, and they were faced down by guys with harpoons. teller was a famous physic