Sentences with phrase «hydrogen bomb research»

Others included Edward E. David, Jr., a former science advisor to President Richard Nixon, and James F. Black, who worked on hydrogen bomb research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1950s.

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The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

According to Nuclear Fuel, an American newsletter that covers the nuclear industry, CHETEK was formed at the suggestion of experts from the Arzamas - 16 research complex, where the Soviet hydrogen bomb was developed.

Through decades of research into heavy ion fusion, AFRD has long experience with induction accelerators — as does Livermore, which began building them in the 1960s for research into thermonuclear fusion (for applications such as hydrogen bombs).