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hydrogen bomb H-bomb an immensely powerful bomb in which hydrogen nuclei combine to form helium nuclei and release energy in an uncontrolled self-sustaining fusion reaction.

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	Memoirs: a Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics.(Book Review) ; ...time to produce a fusion reaction. During the summer...Oppenheimer made the hydrogen bomb part of the laboratory...the Super, as the hydrogen bomb was called. However...continuation of the hydrogen bomb project, Enrico Fermi... Read more
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	Edward Teller, 95, is dead Physicist ardently promoted nuclear bombs OBITUARY ; ...his decade-long effort to produce the hydrogen bomb, his promotion of nuclear weapons in...win support for development of the hydrogen bomb led to his testimony that helped deprive...citizen six years later. The idea for a hydrogen bomb, based on the fusion of atoms, apparently... Read more
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	IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1953: 'We Have the H-Bomb' ; ...today [Aug. 9] that Russia has the hydrogen bomb. To a cheering session of the Supreme...Malenkov declared: ''We, too, have the hydrogen bomb. This should put an end to any chatterer...States does not enjoy a monopoly of the hydrogen bomb any more.' ' Mr. Malenkov said that... Read more
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	Question Time.(Features) ; ...difference between an atomic bomb and a hydrogen bomb? S Brown, Liverpool A AN atomic bomb is fission and a hydrogen bomb is fusion. In an atomic bomb, fission...or plutonium smash together. A hydrogen bomb is much more powerful. P Harvey... Read more
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