hydrogen bomb

If Oppenheimer had reservations about the atomic bomb, he was driven to despair over the prospect of the hydrogen bomb, or, as it was called then, the Super.

Part of him longs for the spotlight and would enjoy being strapped to the back of a hydrogen bomb as it is dropped on an unsuspecting countryside.

The first was the invention of thermonuclear weapons, also called “hydrogen bombs” or “H-bombs.”

In 2017, Pyongyang claimed it had successfully created a miniaturised hydrogen bomb designed to fit inside its missiles - a major step in its nuclear ambitions.

Sakharov, who died in 1989, was a key figure in developing the Soviet Union’s hydrogen bomb program but later become renowned for his activism in promoting human rights and freedom of conscience.