Keep in mind, this was not a small thermonuclear device, sometimes colloquially called a “hydrogen bomb.” No fissile material was hurt in the making of this explosive, just an already wrecked ...

Meanwhile, physicist Edward Teller and Atomic Energy Commissioner (AEE) Lewis Strauss were among those who began arguing vociferously for a "high-priority" program to build a hydrogen bomb.

In a sense, they might’ve just deployed the smallest hydrogen bomb ever built. The bomb was constructed as part of a July ...