In 1950, President Truman approved the race to build the Hydrogen Bomba weapon so powerful it frightened even its creators.
Edward Teller had dreamed of a Super bomb for years, but many scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, argued it was both militarily useless and morally indefensible. Cold War politics won the day.
After the TellerUlam breakthrough in 1951, the impossible became reality. In 1952, Ivy Mike vaporized a Pacific island with a yield of 10.4 megatons.
The H-bomb wasnt just a weapon. It was a statement.
In our linked Short, we explore the roots of this nuclear race: Was the first Soviet atomic bomb based on intelligence stolen from the Manhattan Project?
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