When the Soviets successfully started testing their own nuclear weapons, the United States began its production of uranium and plutonium. By 1950, President Turman announced that the United States would continue research and begin the development of "atomic weapons". Scientist who were working for the Manhattan Project had two designs ready for an atomic bomb. They eventually chose to create a fission bomb ,but time did not permit them. Then physicist, Edward Teller, suggested the creation of a hydrogen bomb. With the results being many times more powerful and destructive than a fission bomb.
On November 1, 1952, the United States released the first hydrogen bomb, code-named "Mike", on Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands. The results of the explosion was the same as 10 million tons of TNT, and 700 times more greater than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The explosion left a great big crater with a cloud of 25 miles high and 100 miles wide. And the island itself disappeared.
Written By: Angela B.
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