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What (who) is hydrogen bomb - definition

AERIAL BOMB
Mark-17 hydrogen bomb; Mark 17 hydrogen bomb
  • A Mark 17 on display at the [[Castle Air Museum]]
  • The Mark 17
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hydrogen bomb      
¦ noun a nuclear bomb whose destructive power comes from the fusion of isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium).
hydrogen bomb      
(hydrogen bombs)
A hydrogen bomb is a nuclear bomb in which energy is released from hydrogen atoms.
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British hydrogen bomb programme         
  • The Grapple 2 test, as reported by [[Universal International Newsreel]]. Orange Herald is described as a hydrogen bomb.
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  • Hydrogen bombs produce [[tritium]] ''in situ'' and thus burn [[deuterium]] and [[lithium]]. Under conditions of sufficient temperature and pressure the reactions form a loop [[chain reaction]] known as Jetter's Cycle.
  • [[Lord Cherwell]] (foreground, in bowler hat) was scientific advisor to [[Winston Churchill]] (centre).
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  • Vickers Valiant XD818 at the [[RAF Museum Cosford]]  was the aircraft that dropped the bomb in the Grapple 1 test in May 1957.
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BRITISH EFFORT TO DEVELOP HYDROGEN BOMBS
British H-bomb; British H-bomb tests; British H-bomb programme
The British hydrogen bomb programme was the ultimately successful British effort to develop hydrogen bombs between 1952 and 1958.

Wikipedia

Mark 17 nuclear bomb

The Mark 17 and Mark 24 were the first mass-produced hydrogen bombs deployed by the United States. The two differed in their "primary" stages. They entered service in 1954, and were phased out by 1957.

Examples of use of hydrogen bomb
1. Tritium is a radioactive component of the hydrogen bomb.
2. Oppenheimer, sobered by the destruction wrought by the atomic bomb, opposed the hydrogen bomb.
3. In 1'53, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
4. Producing and separating heavy water is needed to manufacture a hydrogen bomb.
5. Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain.