anyway teller just wanted to make biggest boom possible and had a bad habit (for a scientist) of clinging to his original idea even when it was proven unworkable. "just make it bigger, then it'll work" it never worked and never could. he also stole credit from ulam and was personal enemy of oppenheimer
there's plenty of unhealthy shit in military, like TBI from arty and grenades, lead exposure from primers and crayons, the reason why there's "do not eat" written on claymores, and few others. but none of these things appear to happen that much in other units. there were attempts to disband navy seals over their rotten unit culture, but nothing of that happened yet
This looks like anti-ambush gizmos bolted to the sides of trucks in Vietnam. One-up this and put a quarter of claymore there instead