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The nuclear bomb was developed by a team of more than 160 scientists working on related projects, and partly based on work of many others.
That was development, Leo Szilard is the legal inventor of the fission bomb. He came up with the idea while crossing a street in London in 1933 and filed a patent for it in 1934 (British patent 630,726). Implementing the patent did not become practical until 1938 when Otto Hahn discovered the isotope Uranium-235 was fissile.
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When was the first detonation of a nuclear bomb?
1945
When was the first nuclear bomb built?
1945
Was the h bomb the first nuclear weapon?
No, the hydrogen fusion bomb was not developed until 1952. The first nuclear weapons were developed and used in combat in 1945.
What nation was the first to develop a nuclear bomb?
US
When did the US build their first nuclear bomb?
1945
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