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The Fake H Bomb.....
I really laughed at the story of britains 'fake' H bomb when I first read
it.
It appears that, despite getting most of their nuclear information from
the British top secret Maud project based at Cambridge Universit in the
1930s, after creating a couple of big bangs in japan in 1945 the Americans
put a moratorium on giving (back?) any nuclear information to foreign
countries, which included britain.
The Brits responded by building Calder Hall, the first nuclear power
station, I remember seeing the Queen opening it on TV. If you can build a
nuclear power station you can build an atomic bomb but, more importantly,
you can produce Plutonium as a bi product.
British scientists decided to build and test a very big A bomb with
American observers invited. The bomb went off, slightly bigger than an A
bomb was supposed to be, but not really convincing enough so they exploded
an even bigger bomb. This time the Americans were convinced and said "Come
and join our club" Translation, tell us what you know. The 'fake ' bomb
did include Tritium, a component of an H bomb but the recipe was kept
secret. Suffice it to say that the next step was a fusion bomb, high in
the megatonage.
Meanwhile, other countries, including, of course th Soviet Union and
Frence were quick to build H bombs and still have a lot of them, as do we,
in fact we make warheads for the US at the little town of Harwell. If we
wanted we could destroy most of the major cities in America. We wouldn't
live to celebrate as the thousands of US warheads woukld turn our tiny
island into a pile of ash within an hour at most.
That's what they call M.A.D.
> 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 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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