Sentences with phrase «first hydrogen bomb»

... Fusion Power... Generating electricity from fusion rather than fission of atoms has been a dream ever since the first hydrogen bomb was exploded.

The first hydrogen bomb was detonated.

And, in 1953 (some months after Stalin's death) their first hydrogen bomb.

The last several months have been particularly contentious, after North Korea claimed to have tested its first hydrogen bomb and fired a satellite into orbit.

The world is closer to nuclear annihilation than at any point since the first hydrogen bombs were tested in the early 1950s, says a group of scientists who monitor global tensions.

Not exact matches

But while U.S. military scientists were able to produce this fusion event, it was uncontrolled energy; the hydrogen bomb could only be detonated through a fission explosion first.

Military experts can discuss «first strike,» «second strike,» and «counter-strike-with bonus»; but beyond these semantic exercises, it is obvious to the careful inquirer that both the U.S. and the USSR are now equipped to eliminate each other as viable societies by exploding a few large hydrogen bombs high in the stratosphere, generating firestorms of meteorological dimensions.

In 1953, after the first test of the hydrogen bomb, the doomsday clock ticked to two minutes until midnight.