These bombs have the explosive power more devastating than nuclear.
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| Enewetak hydrogen bomb explosion in the Pacific Ocean in 1952 (US Air Force via Reuters) |
63 years ago, US President Harry. S. Truman announced the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
The announcement was delivered before the US Congress shocked the world. Although three years earlier, on December 31, 1950, Truman claimed to have ordered directly at the Atomic Energy Commission to process the development of the hydrogen bomb.
Truman admitted to instruct it after finding evidence, the existence of the atomic explosions conducted by the USSR in 1949. However, it turns out the US continues to develop.
As quoted from Amazine.co, the hydrogen bomb was first tested on May 9, 1951 by the US military. In the first test it could be concluded that a fission bomb could be used as a stepping stone to something more destructive (fusion bomb).
The first actual hydrogen bomb tested on November 1 1952, detonated at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific, as part of Operation Ivy. The first hydrogen bomb was named as the Ivy Mike.
The bomb exploded with a force equivalent to 10.4 megatons of TNT (more than 450 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II).
Hydrogen bomb has destroyed more severe power than nuclear. That is why, the issue of the development of the hydrogen bomb, nuclear also become a very sensitive issue in the relationship between countries. And yesterday, Wednesday, January 6, 2016, North Korea claimed they had tested a hydrogen bomb. No wonder the world ketar ketir with the claim.
