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Difference Between Hyrdogen Bomb and Atomic Bomb
The difference between an atomic bomb and a hydrogen bomb is that an atomic bomb uses fission, and a hydrogen bomb uses fusion. Both are very dangerous, but they have different energy requirements: an atomic bomb needs little energy to go through the fission process, and a hydrogen bomb needs a great amount of energy in order to go through fusion.
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http://www.diffen.com/difference/Nuclear_Fission_vs_Nuclear_Fusion
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Opposition to the Hydrogen Bomb
Many people were opposed to the hydrogen bomb. People were against it from a moral standpoint, and also a realistic standpoint as the construction of the bomb was not yet completed. Head of the General Advisory Committee of the successor to The Manhattan Project: J. Robert Oppenheimer was against the bomb because he said its success was limited and not worth the resources
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http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/hbomb/page_02.shtml
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Countries Involved in the Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
The Soviets successfully launched an atomic bomb, and that promped the U.S. to begin work on a hydrogen bomb, and the project was nicknamed The Manhattan Project
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http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/page04.shtml
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The People Involved in the Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Credited with inventing the hydrogen bomb was Edward Teller. Born in Budapest, he later moved to Germany for education but when Hitler came into power he escaped to Denmark and then the United States. Fellow refugee George Gamow worked along side him in the development of this bomb.
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Hydrogen Bomb Research Over-Shadows Atomic Nuclear Weapons
After the Soviet's successful atomic bomb launch, hydrogen bomb research over-shadowed atomic nuclear weapons because they were new and there was much to be discovered and tested about them, and they were also more destructive. The main goal was to invent the hydrogen bomb BEFORE the Soviets did
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http://www.atomcentral.com/cuban-missile-crisis.aspx
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The Hydrogemn Bomb and Nuclear Arms Race
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Testing of the First Hydrogen Bomb
The United States of America tested the first hydrogen bomb November 1st, 1952 at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands
Works Cited:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/nov-1-1952-first-hydrogen-bomb-test/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
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The First Hydrogen Bomb
On November 1st, 1952 the United States of America detonated the first hydrogen bomb. The Soviets detonated an atomic device in 1949, and three years later the United States had accelerated research enough to come up with, and detonate a hydrogen bomb.
Works Cited:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-tests-first-hydrogen-bomb
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The Biggest Hydrogen Bomb
The Tsar bomba was the largest nuclear bomb to have ever been dropped. The Soviet Union detonated this bomb over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in Northern Russia. To this day it is still the largest nuclear weapon to have ever been detonated.
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http://www.tsarbomba.org
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