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[56] [57] In January 2016, North Korea claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, [58] although only a magnitude 5.1 seismic event was detected at the time of the test, [59] a similar magnitude to the 2013 test of a 6–9 kt (25–38 TJ) atomic bomb. These seismic recordings cast doubt upon North Korea's claim that a hydrogen bomb was ...
Teller soon was a participant at Robert Oppenheimer's 1942 conference on the development of a fission bomb held at the University of California, Berkeley, where he guided discussion towards the idea of creating his "Super" bomb, which would hypothetically be many times more powerful than the yet-undeveloped fission weapon. Teller assumed ...
The United States was the first nation to develop the hydrogen bomb, testing an experimental prototype in 1952 ("Ivy Mike") and a deployable weapon in 1954 ("Castle Bravo"). Throughout the Cold War it continued to modernize and enlarge its nuclear arsenal, but from 1992 on has been involved primarily in a program of stockpile stewardship.
It’s unclear what hydrogen projects and where will receive government subsidies. Environmental groups are calling for transparency California to receive $1.2B for hydrogen projects.
The W21 was an hydrogen bomb design for the US military. It would have used the physics package of the TX-21 bomb. The TX-21 was a weaponized version of the "Shrimp" device tested in the Bravo shot of Operation Castle. A TX-21C was tested as the Navajo shot, Operation Redwing. The TX-21 was a scaled-down version of the Runt device (M-17 ...
The city's hydrogen-fueled goals dovetail with Newsom's own climate ambitions for California, including mandates to achieve carbon neutrality no later than 2045, to deliver 90% clean electricity ...
The California hub — known as ARCHES, or the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems — will net $1.2 billion of that federal money, with plans to bring in another $11.2 billion in ...
Redwing demonstrated the first United States airdrop of a deliverable hydrogen bomb during test Cherokee. Because the yields for many tests at Operation Castle in 1954 were dramatically higher than predictions, Redwing was conducted using an "energy budget": There were limits to the total amount of energy released, and the amount of fission ...