Fusion: Testing the First Hydrogen Device

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American Experience AMEX GBH WGBH Fusion: Testing the First Hydrogen Device Hydrogen Bomb President Harry Truman hydrogen bomb Cold War arms race nuclear bomb weapon device atom hydrogen fusion test Mike megaton Pacific Ocean Marshall Islands United States US superbomb 1952 Harry Truman Truman thermonuclear fusion fission bomb trigger Edward Teller Stanislaw Ulam island vaporized test site blast crater crater World War II WWII Hiroshima Nagasaki heat light energy unit of mass tritium isotopes H-bombs Eniwetok Island Russia Soviet Union United States U.S. History Collection U.S. history us history history social studies American history ushist22
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Science History-Social Science
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Classroom Teacher / Educator
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Fusion: Testing the First Hydrogen Device

The devastation presented in this video from American Experience: Race for the Superbomb demonstrates how foreboding the 1952 test of the first hydrogen device was. Watch what prompted United States president Harry Truman to speak publicly about the dangers ahead for a world in which such weapons existed.
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