hydrogen bomb

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Rabi at the 1954 hearing convened to consider stripping J. Robert Oppenheimer of his security clearance because of his opposition to developing the hydrogen bomb.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

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

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

In the 1950s and 60s, servicemen witnessed dozens of atomic and hydrogen bomb tests and radioactive experiments in Australia and the South Pacific as part of the UK's nuclear programme.

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

The device was not a hydrogen bomb, exactly, but it was “the first thermonuclear test explosion on earth,” in the words of one witness, the young Berkeley physicist Herbert York.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik