180. Ted Taylor was a pure genius at fission bomb design. From 1948 until 1956 he worked at Los Alamos, concentrating on optimization of atomic bomb configurations while everyone else was fussing with the hydrogen bomb. He gained a solid reputation for coming up with miniaturized bombs, as well as the largest fission bomb in history, the Super Oralloy Bomb, or “SOB,” yielding 500 kilotons. The SOB was tested in the Ivy Mike series in 1952.