Hydrogen Bomb Is Detonated
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Science, Military History, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Physics, Physicists, Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation, Bombs, Bombings, Explosions
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Oceania
- Date: November 1, 1952
Article abstract: The arsenal of nuclear arms gains a new technology with virtually unlimited destructive capacity.
Summary of Event
In the summer of 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, invited several other leading U.S. physicists to Berkeley, California, to decide how to develop atomic weapons for the war against Germany. At this meeting, Edward Teller, a Hungarian-born physicist, suggested development of a fusion, or hydrogen, bomb. The idea for the fusion bomb came from the type of thermonuclear reactions thought to exist in the...
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