- FloorEast Building third floor
- 5The Dangers of Nuclear Weapons
- 5-3The Nuclear Age and Nuclear Weapons Abolition
- 5-3-1Nuclear Development and Proliferation
5-3-1-2Development of the Hydrogen Bomb
When the Soviet Union got its atomic bomb, the United States stepped up its work on a hydrogen bomb. A hydrogen bomb uses the high temperature and high pressure of an atomic explosion to trigger the nuclear fusion of deuterium, tritium, and other light elements. The energy emitted by this fusion provides the hydrogen bomb’s explosive force, which greatly surpasses that of atomic bombs. The United States conducted its first hydrogen bomb test in the South Pacific in 1952. The explosive force reached 10 megatons – 625 times more force than the Hiroshima bomb emitted.
The Soviet Union replied with a successful hydrogen bomb test in 1955.
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