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World Encyclopedia | Date: 2005

hydrogen bomb (H-bomb) Nuclear weapon developed by the USA in the late 1940s, and first exploded in 1952 in the Pacific. The explosion results from nuclear fusion when hydrogen nuclei are joined to form helium nuclei, releasing great destructive energy and radioactive fallout. An atomic bomb is used as the trigger.

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