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The US, in 1952 tested the first hydrogen bomb in the Ivy Mike shot. However being 80 feet tall and 20 feet in diameter with 2 foot thick steel walls and a delicate triple thermos-bottle suspended inside to hold the cryogenic liquid deuterium-tritium mixture, it was far from a weapon.

The USSR, in 1953 air drop tested a dry fueled bomb with partial but limited fusion yield that they referred to as a "type of hydrogen bomb". This was mostly a Propaganda weapon.

The US, in 1954 tested the first dry fueled hydrogen bomb having the same mechanism as the Ivy Mike shot, the Teller-Ulam staged configuration, in a size that could be carried by airplane in the Castle Bravo shot.

The US Castle Romeo device (very similar to Bravo) was the first dry fueled air droppable Teller-Ulam staged configuration fusion bomb, fielded initially in early 1955 in an emergency configuration that would destroy the bomber as well as the target as the EC-17 bomb. EC-17 bombs were replaced with MK-17 bombs in 1956, that added a parachute to give the bomber time to escape the blast.

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