U.S. President Harry S. Truman publicly announces his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times ...
However, because the development of fission bombs turned out to
The Development of the Hydrogen Bomb. On January 31st, 1950, Truman announced that he had directed the Atomic Agency Commission 'to ...
Thermonuclear bomb, weapon whose explosive power results from an
a weapon thousands of times more powerful than the first atomic bombs.
On this day in 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced that the United States would develop a hydrogen bomb. Two-and-a-half years later, ...
Similar devices were developed by the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France, and China.
After the Soviet atomic bomb success, the idea of building a hydrogen bomb received new impetus in the United States. The scientific community split over the ...
President Truman orders the creation of the hydrogen bomb as precautionary measure against Communist Russia in the shadow of the Cold ...
April 5: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff order atomic retaliation against air bases in case of "a major attack " ...