The design of all modern thermonuclear weapons in the United States is known as the Teller–Ulam configuration for its two chief contributors, Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, who developed it in 1951 for the United States, with certain concepts developed with the contribution of physicist John von Neumann.
Det moderne design af alle termonukleare våben i USA kendes som Teller–Ulam-konfigurationen, navngivet efter dets to centrale bidragsydere, Edward Teller og Stanislaw Ulam, som udviklede det i 1951 for USA, med nogle koncepter udviklet sammen med John von Neumann.