about how to build a hydrogen bomb, led Truman to approve massive funding ...
On this day in 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced that the United
In January 1950, President Truman made the controversial decision to continue ... As the debate over whether or not to build the hydrogen bomb
Harry S. Truman, President of the USA, in 1945 (Library of Congress)In
idea of building a hydrogen bomb received new impetus in the United States.
Mostly, however, this is the story of Stalin's race to end the American atomic monopoly.
It was not until the U.S. entered the war in December 1941 that Washington
Thermonuclear bomb, weapon whose explosive power results from an uncontrolled
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, President Harry Truman, and British Prime
role in President Truman's H-bomb decision.5 It will complement existing