When was hydrogen bomb developed

Senator McMahon issued a statement next day that the matter of the hydrogen bomb was 'under continuous investigation and consideration'. On January 31st Truman announced that, in accordance with his responsibility to see that the country was able to defend itself against any possible aggressor, he had directed the Atomic Energy Commission 'to continue with its work on all forms of atomic energy weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or super-bomb'. A new stage had opened in the arms race and progress was swift.

By the Soviet Union had a weapon which yielded an explosive force equivalent to 60 million tons of TNT, and by the end of the s the world's nuclear powers had some 40, thermo-nuclear devices in their arsenals. The Development of the Hydrogen Bomb. The first successful American test was conducted in the Pacific in , the first Soviet test in the following year. An American crash programme under Teller was ready to drop the first H-bomb ever launched from an aircraft in May The First Hydrogen Bomb.

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