William J. Broad, “North Korea’s Performance Anxiety”, in yesterday’s NYT Sunday Review: “It’s a boy,” Edward Teller exulted after the world’s first hydrogen bomb exploded in 1952 with a force 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. From the start, the nuclear era seethed with sexual allusions. Military officers joked about the … Continue reading Missile phallicity