H-Bomb
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hydrogen bomb; immensly powerful type of bomb which explodes when the
nuclei of deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen) fuse. On January 31, 1950,
Truman ordered the developement of a hydrogen bomb. In 1952, eyewitnesses
told of blasts near Eniwetok an island in the Pacific Ocean.
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