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Oppenheimer and Teller
Oppenheimer Rejects Teller
Robert Oppenheimer rejects Edward Teller's idea of hydrogen bomb. Teller goes on to create the bomb but Oppenheimer guessed correctly about its destruction. -
Opposition of Building Hydrogen Bomb
Opposition to build
(No specific date avaiable) After dropping the two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists at Los Alamos rejected the idea of building a bomb 1000 times more powerful than the two atom bombs. They did not think it was ethical considering it would wipe out entire civilian populations. Plus they did not know if they could even build it. -
Edward Teller
Teller
Edward Teller worked on the Manhatten Project. He then went to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to work on the Hydrogen Bomb. He was not head of the project but he became known as the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb." He put much work and effort into the project and received many awards for it. He was the largest factor in building the hydrogen bomb for the US. -
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Atom Bomb to Hydrogen Bomb
Atomic Archive
The success of the atom bomb was well known. So, many scientists like Edward Teller, explored the idea of making a bomb explode due to fission instead of fusion. Fission bombs would have a much higher power yield then fusion bombs, 1000 times more. -
Lewis Strauss
StraussLewis Strauss pushed for the creation of larger more powerful bombs. He wanted more of them in numbers and bigger explosions due to the fact that the Solviets had created nuclear weapons. -
Presedent Truman Decides to continue with Hydrogen Bomb
Truman and Fuchs After learning that Klaus Fuchs, a scientist of the Manhatten Project, exposed secrets to the Soviets, President Truman decides to pursue the making of a Hydrogen Bomb. -
Einstein Speaks out Against Hydrogen Bomb
Einstein opposes
A leader in the creation, Albert Einstein, speaks out against the hydrogen bomb. He says on a talk show, "radioactive poisoning of the atmosphere, hence the annihilation of any life on earth." -
"George"
The "George" Test
US creates a large atomic bomb that was inside a shell. This shell contained the radiation long enough to heat up a hydrogen source that created a fission reaction. "George" was not the first hydrogen bomb but it lead to the first. -
"Mike"
Ivy Mike
"Mike" was the first hydrogen bomb to be sucessfully tested at a location called Eniwetok in the Pacific Ocean. It's power yield was 10.4 megatons. It was only experimental and was not intended to be dropped from a plane. -
Layer-Cake
Layer Cake
The Solviets created a bomb that was layered with uranium and lithium deuteride (hydrogen isotope). This bomb was 30 times more powerful than the US's. -
"Bravo"
bravoAnother hydrogen bomb tested by the US in the Pacific at Bikini Atoll was called "Bravo." This bomb had much higher energy outputs then expected. It was the largest hydrogen bomb that the US detonated-15 megatons. -
Russell–Einstein Manifesto
Manifesto
Bertrand Russle and Albert Einstein along with other scientists warn the world about how dangerous the hydrogen bomb really is. They explain that all governments should discontinue the research into the use of this bomb. -
RDS-37
RDS-37
RDS-37 was the second Solviet hydrogen bomb. It produced 1.6 megatons of energy. It was tested on the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. -
British Drops Hydrogen Bomb
Britian
Grapple X was a British operation that dropped their first "megaton-class" bomb on Christamas Island in the Indian Ocean. It gave a yield of 1.8 megatons. -
Big Ivan or Tsar Bomb
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While under construction, the Tsar Bomb was planned to be twice the size it was, but a bomb that big could not be dropped from a plane. -
Big Ivan or Tsar Bomb
Tsar
Big Ivan or the Tsar Bomb, to this day, is the langest hydrogen bomb ever detonated. It's power yeild was 50 megatons. The Solviets dropped it from an airplane. Its explosion was so big that it had to be slowed by a parachute so the pilot in the plane could get away safely. -
China Drops Hydrogen Bomb
China
China had studied atom bombs and hydrogen bombs at the same time. This was the first successful hydrogen bomb. It was dropped over Xinjiang, in northwestern China. It had a yield of 3.3 megatons. -
France Drops Hydrogen Bomb
France
France carried out their first thermonuclear test called Canopus. It was at Fangataufa Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean. The yield of the explosion was 2.6 megatons.
