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The Oxford Companion to United States History | 2001 | | Â© The Oxford Companion to United States History 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Hydrogen Bomb. See Nuclear Weapons; Teller, Edward.

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