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the atomic bomb. A weapon that devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But he was famously opposed to building hydrogen bombs. What makes the two nuclear bombs different?

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 ...

NEW YORK: Prof Albert Einstein warned a television audience here that the hydrogen bomb, if developed, would annihilate life by radioactive poisoning of the atmosphere. Prof Einstein, who was ...