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Nov 1, 1952:
United States tests first hydrogen bomb
The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear
weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The
test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the
nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. Following the successful
Soviet detonation of an atomic device in September 1949, the
United States accelerated its program to develop the next stage
in atomic weaponry, a thermonuclear bomb. Popularly known as the
hydrogen bomb, this new weapon was approximately 1,000 times more
powerful than conventional nuclear devices. Opponents of
development of the hydrogen bomb included J. Robert Oppenheimer,
one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. He and others argued that
little would be accomplished except the speeding up of the arms
race, since it was assumed that the Soviets would quickly follow
suit.The opponents were correct in their assumptions. The Soviet
Union exploded a thermonuclear device the following year and by
the late 1970s, seven nations had constructed hydrogen bombs. The
nuclear arms race had taken a fearful step forward.
73, K.O. n0kfq
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