What do you think about when you think about chemical warfare? The mustard gas and VX gas used or the atom bomb? Would the hydrogen bomb come to mind? This is the most notorious bomb ever created to eradicate anything within a forty-seven mile radius. Any man-made weapon falls short of a hydrogen bomb’s destructive capability. You probably don’t know a lot about this weapon, but that’s already covered in this paper. Everything has to have an inventor, and that’s where we start. The inventor of the Hydrogen bomb is Edward Teller. Teller has received the Albert Einstein Award, Enrico Fermi Award, Harvey Prize in Technology, National Medal of Science of Physical Science, and the presidential Medal of Freedom. He was assigned by President Harry S. Truman. He got his education at Leipzig University, and later got another at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. …show more content…
They started the project in 1949, but finished in 1950.This was created because the Soviet Union had successfully created an Atomic Bomb. People were starting to think that they can create something that triggers nuclear fusion, but some thought this power was only from the Sun. They were proven wrong by Edward Teller, and his group of chemical physicists. Adding on, the idea of the hydrogen was a still just a theory. This is really what the world of war was like before the hydrogen bomb, even the atomic bomb was invented. The new nuclear weapon was the atomic bomb, which was significantly weaker. This is because fusion is stronger than fission. Fission is when you split something, preferably an atom, into two things. On the other hand, fusion is the polar opposite. You are combining two atoms, or things, into one singular substance. At this time people thought you couldn’t harness the power of the Sun into a destructive device. (Cold War