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How long did it take the Soviet to duplicate the Hydrogen bomb?
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- The US tested a nondeliverable prototype device in 1952
- The USSR tested a deliverable but limited bomb in 1953 (this would not be considered a hydrogen bomb now, instead a boosted fission bomb)
- The US tested a deliverable bomb in 1954
- The USSR tested a deliverable bomb in 1955
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How long has computers been around?
The first computer is known as ENIAC, and it was designed for military use. It was finished in 1946, and one of its first uses was to study the possibility of making a hydrogen bomb. One of the first google searches were, "how to make a hydrogen bomb".
How long the atomic bomb take to make?
The US were working on the bomb since 1941 up to 1945 when the first bomb tested.
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How long did the us think it would have taken the soviet union to get the atomic bomb?
At least another 5 years, most likely not before 1955.
Why is the hydrogen bomb dependent on the atomic bomb?
A hydrogen bomb is a fusion nuclear weapon, and the "regular" atomic bomb is a fission one. Both are an example of an "atomic bomb" in the general sense. But we know what you're asking, and here's the answer. In a fission weapon, subcritical masses of fissile material (usually plutonium) are driven together with conventional explosives to cause criticality, supercriticality and the blast. In a hydrogen bomb, the only way to get things hot enough for fusion to begin to occur is by virtue of the heat generated by a fission weapon. A fission blast will, if things are set up correctly, set off a fusion blast. Big, big, bigboom! That's the long and short of it. To build a hydrogen (fusion) weapon, you have to build a fission bomb "around" or "up against" components to cause fusion to occur in the heat of the fission reaction when that fission bomb goes off. Our sun is a gigantic fusion machine. It is similar to a hydrogen bomb in that both fuse hydrogen into helium. On the sun, it happens all the time in a continuous event. Here on earth, it's a one-shot affair and a massive boom!
How does the neutron bomb work?
A neutron bomb is a type of hydrogen bomb. It actually was a development that came from the late 1950s work by the US to make "clean hydrogen bombs" that produced very little fallout. In a conventional hydrogen bomb the tamper (device to contain the nuclear reaction as long as possible to get as much energy from it as possible) is usually made with depleted uranium because of its high density and low cost. While depleted uranium will not support a neutron chain reaction it will fission when hit by the high energy neutrons produced by the fusion reaction of the hydrogen bomb. This depleted uranium fast fission can produce up to 90% of the total yield in some hydrogen bomb designs, as well as a proportional amount of the fallout. In a "clean hydrogen bomb" the tamper is instead made of some other very dense metal that unlike uranium will not fission when hit by high energy neutrons. Lead and tungsten have been used. However the explosive yield of a "clean hydrogen bomb" will be lower than a similar conventional hydrogen bomb because there is no fission in the tamper. But as these materials do not consume the high energy neutrons, they escape from "clean hydrogen bombs". It was observed that these neutrons easily pass through tank armor and building walls, killing those inside while the lower yield produces less blast and fire damage. Thus was born the idea of the neutron bomb.
How long has computers been around?
The first computer is known as ENIAC, and it was designed for military use. It was finished in 1946, and one of its first uses was to study the possibility of making a hydrogen bomb. One of the first google searches were, "how to make a hydrogen bomb".
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Which country first developed a neutron bomb?
usYes, the United States was the first to develop a Neutron bomb, it was originally part of the United States efforts following the fallout problems with the 1954 Castle Bravo test (15Mton) to develop a low fallout or "clean" Hydrogen bomb. In a standard Hydrogen bomb typically 90% of the yield and fallout is produced by fission of the depleted uranium tamper by the high energy fusion neutrons from the compressed hydrogen fuel assembly fusing. If one were to replace the depleted uranium tamper with one made from an element almost as dense as uranium, non-fissionable, and transparent to the high energy fusion neutrons (e.g. lead); then at some loss of yield one could eliminate almost all the fallout of a Hydrogen bomb! The fact that such a "clean" Hydrogen bomb would emit a very high local high energy neutron flux was not even considered at the time, just the reduction in fallout.The first such "clean" Hydrogen bomb was tested in the 1956 Redwing Zuni test (3.5Mton) had a yield that was only 15% fission with a similar reduction in fallout. The nearly identical standard Hydrogen bomb the 1956 Redwing Tewa test (5Mton) had a yield that was 87% fission. A second, different, "clean" Hydrogen bomb was tested in the 1956 Redwing Navaho test (4.7MTon) had a yield that was only 5% fission! It was first realized in 1958 by Sam Cohen at LLNL that further changes (e.g. more neutron transparent tamper, high efficiency hollow core tritium gas boosted fission trigger) could produce a weapon generating more of its yield as neutron radiation than as blast (this was first tested underground in Nevada in 1963).After long years of debate over the potential advantages/disadvantages of "clean" vs. standard vs. "dirty" (aka "salted") Hydrogen bombs, both "clean" and "dirty" designs were abandoned because of the lost yield for the same usage of expensive nuclear materials. The "clean" Hydrogen bomb returned (with some design changes, see above) in the middle 1970s, but now renamed the Neutron bomb or ERW (Enhanced Radiation Weapon). Carter delayed deployment, Reagan deployed it, Bush withdrew it.Do not confuse a dirty radiological bomb with a "dirty" Hydrogen bomb. The radiological bomb is just an ordinary chemical explosive wrapped in highly radioactive isotopes, which it disperses when it explodes. Such a bomb will probably kill everyone involved in assembling it before it affects anyone at its target. A "dirty" Hydrogen bomb uses a tamper made of a material that captures neutrons and transmutes into highly radioactive isotopes, increasing the fallout.
How long the atomic bomb take to make?
The US were working on the bomb since 1941 up to 1945 when the first bomb tested.
