hydrogen bomb

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Teller’s explanation was likely self-serving given his later acrimonious rift with Oppenheimer over the hydrogen bomb.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

John Morris, 87, worked as a laundry operator "washing contaminated clothing" on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean in the 1950s, and said he witnessed tests of three atomic bombs and one hydrogen bomb.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

Much of Oppenheimer’s life after Los Alamos had to do with the question of whether to develop the hydrogen bomb.

From Scientific American • Aug. 2, 2023

Benny Safdie makes a memorably sweaty and argumentative Edward Teller, an early proponent of the hydrogen bomb who has his own shifty role to play in Oppenheimer’s postwar tribulations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

The heat released in this reaction, which is like a controlled hydrogen bomb explosion, is what makes the star shine.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking