The Arms Race was mostly the race to create and complete the Hydrogen bomb. The H-bomb was an explosive weapon of enormous destructive power caused by the fusion of nuclei of various hydrogen isotopes in the formation of helium nuclei. J. Robert Openheimer was the scientist invovled in creating the A-bomb and H-bomb. On January 31, 1950, Truman authorized the creation of this bomb because of political pressures. After the H-bomb was created, the first of the bombs exploded on November 1, 1952. It had taken the Americans two years to create and perfect their H-bomb. However the Soviet's caught up and their first hydrogen bomb exploded in August of the year 1953, one year after us.
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2 comments:
Wow. There was a lot of information about the H-bomb and the competition between the US and the USSR. I liked how you worded it.
Cool Blog! I really like how you explained all of the details of the H-bomb. I shows just how powerful it was. I like how you explained the competetion between the two countries.
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