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__ What is the hydrogen bomb? __
 * The Hydrogen Bomb ** Jordan Cogan​
 * The basic idea of the hydrogen bomb is that the energy from a fission bomb is used to compress isotopes of hydrogen, tritium, and deuterium to form a fusion reaction.
 * In a sense, it is an atomic bomb setting off the hydrogen bomb.
 * The explosion would be over 450 times more powerful than an atomic bomb.

__ Who created the hydrogen bomb? __
 * Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam were the two men with the original ideas for the hydrogen bomb.
 * Between the two of them, they eventually came up with the Tell-Ulam design. [[image:Enewetak_Atoll.jpg width="448" height="336" align="right"]]

__ What about the first test? __
 * The first full-scale thermonuclear test was called the "Ivy Mike" test.
 * They tested it on the island of Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
 * The explosion left a crater that was about a mile or so wide.
 * No living thing survived on any of the nearby islands.

__ Where there any more tests? __
 * The second test was done on March 1, 1954.
 * Its code name was "Castle Bravo."
 * It was performed in Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
 * The explosion was much more powerful than what was expected. It was about three times more megatons and left a crater about 1/2 a mile wide.
 * Islanders who where nearby got radiation since the blast was so large.
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__ What other countries made hydrogen bombs? __ __ Why was the hydrogen bomb developed? __
 * The USSR developed and tested the Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961. It was the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated with 50 megatons.
 * The British had a lot of trouble creating a design. They couldn't seem to get into the megaton range for the longest time. Once they finally did, America gave them some of their designs to use.
 * We don't really know much about the French since they only have one known test of a nuclear weapon.
 * It's believed that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, but they have no known tests.
 * The Chinese detonated their hydrogen bomb on June 17, 1967.
 * North Korea and Pakistan have had nuclear tests, but none of them appear to be hydrogen bombs.
 * India tested a nuclear weapon on May 11, 1998, but whether or not it was a hydrogen bomb has been the subject of debate.
 * During the Cold War, there was an arms race between the U.S. and the USSR.
 * Both of their goals were basically to have hydrogen bombs before the other.
 * The United States developed theirs first, but the Soviet Union wasn't far behind.

__ What have we learned? __
 * The hydrogen bomb is a powerful weapon.
 * The United States and Soviet Union developed them during the Cold War.
 * A number of other countries have also developed them.

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