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  1. Stan Ulam & Edward Teller had invented a mechanism based on Radiation Implosion that finally made one practical in early 1950.
  2. The USSR tested their first atomic bomb in 1949.
  3. The start of the Korean War in 1950.
  4. McCarthyism & the Red Scare.
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Q: Why did the US government decide to built a hydrogen bomb?
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What is the difference between a hydrogen bomb and an Uranium bomb and which one is more powerful?

Hydrogen bomb gets some of its energy from fusion, uranium or plutonium bomb gets all of it from fission. Either can be more powerful, depending on the design. The most powerful bombs built have all been hydrogen bombs.


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What bomb was invented after the a-bomb?

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