SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Friday is the 75th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s decision to authorize work on a hydrogen bomb. On January 31st, 1950, Truman ordered the Atomic Energy ...

The argument the magazine put forward against the development of the hydrogen bomb, the pursuit of which President Truman inaugurated on this day in 1950, was not an obvious one: The Nation’s ...

The decision as to whether the U.S. should make a hydrogen bomb, said Harry Truman, is mine and nobody else’s. But there were a lot of people looking over his shoulder, and they seemed ...

Harry Truman’s valedictory warning to Stalin on ... have been so closemouthed about the explosion of the experimental H-bomb last November at Eniwetok that nobody really knows what, precisely ...

Thermonuclear weapons are nuclear weapons whose design uses the heat generated by a fission bomb to compress a ... U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Atomic Energy Act in 1946 and ...

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75 years ago: Truman orders development of the H-bomb On January 31, 1950, US President Harry Truman officially ordered the development of thermonuclear weapons, also known as hydrogen bombs.

Truman informs the nation that an atomic weapon has been detonated in Japan. Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima ... Source: Harry S. Truman Library, "Army press ...