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  1. historicmysteries.com

    May 22, 2023As such it's important we learn from events like the Fogbank incident and make sure we keep our governments accountable. Mistakes like Fogbank must never be swept under the rug. Top Image: A US Mark VII "Thor" nuclear weapon containing Fogbank, which the Americans forgot how to make. Source: Chairboy / CC BY-SA 3.0.
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  3. blog.nuclearsecrecy.com

    Not only would a crash program divert vital resources from the US fission weapons program at a crucial time (and they not only did not know how to make an H-bomb in 1949, they didn't even know for sure that it could be built), but a world with H-bombs would ultimately be more dangerous for the United States than the Soviets (because the US ...
  4. airandspaceforces.com

    In March 1950 ,Truman gave H-bomb research the highest priority. The developmental challenges were severe. It had yet to be demonstrated that a hydrogen bomb—a quantum jump in nuclear technology—was technically feasible. As Truman described the situation, "Everything pertaining to the hydrogen bomb was … still in the realm of the ...
  5. historytoday.com

    The American bomb was successfully tested at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific in 1952 and the USSR tested its first hydrogen bomb a year later. By 1961 the Soviet Union had a weapon which yielded an explosive force equivalent to 60 million tons of TNT, and by the end of the 1980s the world's nuclear powers had some 40,000 thermo-nuclear devices in ...
  6. realclearhistory.com

    It's been more than 60 years since the US successfully tested the first hydrogen bomb. Since then only four other countries—Russia, France, China, and the UK—have been able to make one themselves.
  7. encyclopedia.com

    H-BOMB, DECISION TO BUILD. The 1950 decision to build a hydrogen bomb involved the consideration of U.S. strategic, scientific, and moral concerns in light of the growing threat from the Soviet Union.The decision was part of an arms race with the Soviet Union, which lasted throughout the Cold War (1946-1991) and fueled America's military buildup.. Continued development of nuclear weapons ...
  8. harvardmagazine.com

    Ultimate Weapon, which debuted on the History Channel in August 2000, is not, Galison points out, a technical film about the H-bomb. He sometimes jokes that it took longer to make the movie than to make the bomb: production began in 1988, when he and documentary-maker Pamela Hogan '77 began to film people who'd been involved in the H-bomb project.
  9. atomicarchive.com

    These documents chronicle the United States' effort in developing the hydrogen bomb and the effects of the Soviet Union's atomic-bomb development. Documents include: General Advisory Committee's Majority and Minority Reports on Building the H-Bomb and Comments on The History of the H-Bomb by Hans Bethe.
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