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Who invented hydrogen bomb?
There are a few who claim the idea, but president Harry Truman first approved one to be built for the Korean war, 1950-1953. Richard Lawrence Garwin, American physicist, produced a design in 1952 at IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The original ideas for the hydrogen bomb came up early in the Manhattan Project, but it is unknown who first proposed them.Edward Teller became fixated on the idea of the hydrogen bomb and the only way that Oppenheimer could get Teller to continue doing any work on the atomic bomb and stop taking other scientists away from their critical atomic bomb tasks to work on Teller's hydrogen bomb ideas was to just let him work on his hydrogen bomb ideas and just contact Teller as needed to consult on the atomic bomb work.Edward Teller completed his first hydrogen bomb design, which he called "The Super" in the fall of 1945. This design was tested by numerical simulation on the newly completed ENIAC in december 1945 through january 1946, and shown to be not workable. Further work on hydrogen bomb designs was effectively suspended (although Edward Teller was allowed to continue "dabbling" at designing one).In 1950 Stanislaw Ulam (a mathematician working with a team on producing higher yield more efficient atomic bombs) went to consult with Teller on an idea his team had proposed to use the explosion of one atomic bomb to compress and trigger a second atomic bomb. Teller suddenly realized this was the idea he needed to make his "Super" bombs work: use an atomic bomb not just to heat his hydrogen bomb (as he had done in all earlier designs) but to compress his hydrogen bomb too. Computer numerical simulations confirmed this would work. Serious design work on hydrogen bombs resumed at Los Alamos.The first hydrogen bomb using the new "Teller-Ulam" design was built and tested in 1952, but by then Teller was fed up with his working arrangements at Los Alamos and quit. He convinced the military and AEC that they needed a second nuclear weapons development lab that he would have absolute control over. Slightly later in 1952 Lawrence Livermore Labs opened with Edward Teller as director.
Where did atomic bombs come from?
Edward Teller was determined to build it and invented many unsuccessful designs. Stan Ulam, working on improved atomic bomb designs, showed Teller the radiation implosion technique. Teller recognized this as the missing feature to make the hydrogen bomb work; resulting in the Teller-Ulam design. This was successfully tested in 1952, shot Ivy Mike at 10 megatons yield. Teller had already left Los Alamos a few months before the test to start Livermore Labs, so he was not involved.
Which man made the first atomic bomb?
The first hydrogen bomb was designed by American Richard "Dick" Garwin. Whilst Garwin made the first design, Edward Teller and a team of scientists made the first actual bomb. In interviews, Teller was quite adamant that the credit go to Garwin for his design, but he accepted the credit for the construction of the bomb itself. Other scientists who worked out the details of the design were Dr. Marshall Rosenbluth and Dr. Conrad Longmire. The role of various physicists and scientists in the development of the Hydrogen bomb has been fulled by controversy and criticism through the years. For more details on Teller's view of the process and the people involved, see the link below. Thank You.
What event intensified American interest in developing a hydrogen bomb?
The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949, President Truman had to make a terrible decision-- whether to develop an even more horrifying weapon- Hydrogen 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".
Who invented hydrogen bomb?
There are a few who claim the idea, but president Harry Truman first approved one to be built for the Korean war, 1950-1953. Richard Lawrence Garwin, American physicist, produced a design in 1952 at IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The original ideas for the hydrogen bomb came up early in the Manhattan Project, but it is unknown who first proposed them.Edward Teller became fixated on the idea of the hydrogen bomb and the only way that Oppenheimer could get Teller to continue doing any work on the atomic bomb and stop taking other scientists away from their critical atomic bomb tasks to work on Teller's hydrogen bomb ideas was to just let him work on his hydrogen bomb ideas and just contact Teller as needed to consult on the atomic bomb work.Edward Teller completed his first hydrogen bomb design, which he called "The Super" in the fall of 1945. This design was tested by numerical simulation on the newly completed ENIAC in december 1945 through january 1946, and shown to be not workable. Further work on hydrogen bomb designs was effectively suspended (although Edward Teller was allowed to continue "dabbling" at designing one).In 1950 Stanislaw Ulam (a mathematician working with a team on producing higher yield more efficient atomic bombs) went to consult with Teller on an idea his team had proposed to use the explosion of one atomic bomb to compress and trigger a second atomic bomb. Teller suddenly realized this was the idea he needed to make his "Super" bombs work: use an atomic bomb not just to heat his hydrogen bomb (as he had done in all earlier designs) but to compress his hydrogen bomb too. Computer numerical simulations confirmed this would work. Serious design work on hydrogen bombs resumed at Los Alamos.The first hydrogen bomb using the new "Teller-Ulam" design was built and tested in 1952, but by then Teller was fed up with his working arrangements at Los Alamos and quit. He convinced the military and AEC that they needed a second nuclear weapons development lab that he would have absolute control over. Slightly later in 1952 Lawrence Livermore Labs opened with Edward Teller as director.
Where did atomic bombs come from?
Edward Teller was determined to build it and invented many unsuccessful designs. Stan Ulam, working on improved atomic bomb designs, showed Teller the radiation implosion technique. Teller recognized this as the missing feature to make the hydrogen bomb work; resulting in the Teller-Ulam design. This was successfully tested in 1952, shot Ivy Mike at 10 megatons yield. Teller had already left Los Alamos a few months before the test to start Livermore Labs, so he was not involved.
Who invented the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb?
Leo Szilard invented the atomic fission bomb in 1933 in London while crossing a street. He applied for a patent on it in 1934 and was granted that patent (GB630726) in 1936, at which time the British Admiralty classified the patent to prevent Nazi Germany from seeing it, the patent remained classified until 1949. Szilard worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos helping develop the atomic fission bomb.It is unclear exactly who invented the hydrogen fusion bomb as it came up in many group discussions early in the Manhattan Project. Edward Teller liked to have people believe he was the inventor, but that is unlikely. However Teller became fixated on it (calling it the Super Bomb) to the point that he began to hinder other people's work on the atomic fission bomb and finally Oppenheimer had to limit Teller's access to others on the project (which Teller never forgave him for). Before the war ended Teller had completed a hydrogen fusion bomb design that he called the Classical Super but was not allowed to try building it. However in December 1945 and January 1946 a simulation of Teller's Classical Super design was run on the ENIAC, but it showed the design was an unworkable failure and serious work on hydrogen fusion bombs effectively died at that time (although Teller persisted at working alone on them in his spare time).In 1949 a team working on atomic fission bomb improvements at Los Alamos developed an idea to improve the core compression of an atomic fission bomb (and thus its efficiency and yield) using a concept called "staging", where a small atomic fission bomb would be used to compress a second larger atomic fission bomb thus giving a much higher yield. However the team ran into problems developing the equations for a computational model of this design. They sent their mathematician Stanislaw Ulam to consult with Edward Teller on these equations. Teller immediately saw that this "staging" concept was the feature needed to get the high compression and temperature needed to finally make his hydrogen fusion bomb design workable. By 1950 working together Stanislaw Ulam & Edward Teller had invented the modern staged hydrogen fusion bomb design (usually called the Teller-Ulam configuration, although Teller kept trying to denigrate and diminish Ulam's contributions).Note: H. G. Wells created the name "atomic bomb" for his 1914 science fiction novel The World Set Free, but did not have anything to do with their invention.
When was the hydrogen bomb invented?
The original invention of the hydrogen bomb was very early in the Manhattan Project, but no significant work on designing one was done until right after the end of World War 2, when Edward Teller completed his "Classical Super" design (simulation of this design on ENIAC showed by the end of January 1946 that this design would not work). The invention of what became the Teller-Ulam staged radiation implosion hydrogen bomb came in 1950 from work on improved atomic bomb designs. A design team at Los Alamos came up with the idea of using one atomic bomb to implode another much faster than chemical explosives can, resulting in a device having higher yield while using less fissionable material. One member of this team, the mathematician Stanislaw Ulam decided to consult with Edward Teller on issues of x-ray radiation transport, etc. and how to perform the necessary mathematical analyses to model this on a computer. However Edward Teller quickly realized this was the missing "ingredient" needed to make his hydrogen bomb designs practical and while supporting continuing work on the idea with Stanislaw Ulam he discouraged using the concept for improving atomic bombs with this idea as being "inefficient" compared to making hydrogen bombs. The US built and tested its first hydrogen bomb using staged radiation implosion in 1952 (designed by Richard Garwin, with suggestions by Edward Teller) in shot Ivy Mike a massive 82 ton cryogenic assembly requiring a separate liquid hydrogen plant to keep its deuterium-tritium fusion fuel mixture cold. This was obviously not a practical bomb for an aircraft to deliver. The USSR built and tested a limited yield, but deliverable weapon they called a "type of hydrogen bomb" in 1953, causing a brief panic in the US. This device did not use a staged radiation implosion, instead its core consisted of alternating layers of enriched uranium and lithium deuteride, making it more of a "dry boosted fission bomb" than a hydrogen bomb. The US built and tested several different deliverable hydrogen bombs using staged radiation implosion in 1954 in operation Castle. The device tested in shot Castle Romeo was selected to become the first US hydrogen bomb and was fielded later that year as the EC-17 and could only be carried by the B-36 bomber. "EC" meant Emergency Capability: any bomber delivering one was on a suicide mission as there was no way the airplane could avoid being destroyed by the blastwave from the explosion. In 1955 the US added a retarding parachute to this bomb which gave time for the bomber to escape undamaged, and changed its name to the MK-17. At about the same time the USSR tested and fielded their first deliverable staged radiation implosion hydrogen bomb.
What element is used to make a hydrogen bomb?
end of world,
Did edward teller win a Nobel Peace Prize?
He didn't. What he won was the first "lg Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991. The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten unusual or trivial "achievements" in scientific research, for discoveries "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced". The self proclaimed aim of the prizes is to "first make people laugh, and then make them think". Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are presented by a group that includes Nobel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater. The point of that particular award was that "the father of the hydrogen bomb" won the lg Nobel Peace Prize. Get the point?
Which man made the first atomic bomb?
The first hydrogen bomb was designed by American Richard "Dick" Garwin. Whilst Garwin made the first design, Edward Teller and a team of scientists made the first actual bomb. In interviews, Teller was quite adamant that the credit go to Garwin for his design, but he accepted the credit for the construction of the bomb itself. Other scientists who worked out the details of the design were Dr. Marshall Rosenbluth and Dr. Conrad Longmire. The role of various physicists and scientists in the development of the Hydrogen bomb has been fulled by controversy and criticism through the years. For more details on Teller's view of the process and the people involved, see the link below. Thank You.
What form of energy does the hydrogen bomb use?
Atomic energy, released by the fusion of hydrogen isotopes to make helium.
What make an atomic bomb different from a hydrogen bomb?
There are many differences, one is that it is impossible to build a pure fission atomic bomb with a yield above 1 megaton (the largest tested was 500 kilotons, half the limit) while there is no limit on the yield that a hydrogen bomb can produce. The difference in mechanism is that an atomic bomb gets all of its yield from fission of heavy isotopes (e.g. plutonium-239, uranium-235, uranium-233) while a hydrogen bomb gets a significant amount of its yield from fusion of isotopes of the light element hydrogen (deuterium and tritium).
Can you make a hydrogen bomb more powerful by adding more ingredients?
Yes, that is the exact advantage of the radiation implosion hydrogen bomb design. Just keep adding more stages with more fuel to get as large a yield as desired.
What event intensified American interest in developing a hydrogen bomb?
The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949, President Truman had to make a terrible decision-- whether to develop an even more horrifying weapon- Hydrogen bomb
Who invented the nuclear missile?
This is two separate inventions: the nuclear bomb/warhead and the vertical launch long range rocket. They were separately invented at different times by different people, then mated together to make SRBM, IRBM, SLBM, and ICBM. Robert Goddard & Werner von Braun both independently invented different vertical launch long range rockets. Leo Szilard invented the fission bomb, Stan Ulam and Edward Teller invented the fusion bomb.
