The Cold war and the Hydrogen Bomb

    The Hydrogen bomb or otherwise know as the H-bomb and super bomb was President Truman's response to when the U.S found out Russia was making Atomic bombs.  At the time the U.S and Russia were having a atomic/space race seeing whoever could build the most bombs and get the farthest in space technology. In this type of bomb, deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes) are fused into helium, thereby releasing energy. There is no limit on the yield of this weapon. The first test of an H-Bomb created a 25 square mill fireball that had the power to destroy half of Manhattan. Fortunately the bomb was never used on people and the Cold war ended in 1991.