Race for the Hydrogen Bomb. World War II's end signified the beginning of the race to develop a weapon even more potent than the atomic bomb: the hydrogen bomb.

A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design.

A hydrogen bomb has never been used in battle by any country, but experts say it has the power to wipe out entire cities and kill significantly more people ...

The result was an explosion that was equivalent to one produced by more than ten million tons of TNT. This was approximately 700 times the power of the uranium ...

27 сент. 2024 г. · The U.S.S.R. first tested a hydrogen bomb on August 12, 1953, followed by the United Kingdom in May 1957, China (1967), and France (1968) ...

The Mark 17 and Mark 24 were the first mass-produced hydrogen bombs deployed by the United States. The two differed in their “primary” stages. They entered ...

27 авг. 2023 г. · Seven years after the end of WWII, the US detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb. H-bombs use a combination of nuclear fission and fusion ...

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. Fat Man · Enola Gay · 509th Composite Group · Yoshito Matsushige

The United States developed and fielded a hydrogen bomb in the face of repeated military and political provocations by the Soviet Union.

At 8.15 on the morning of 6th August 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was devastated by the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon of war.