Hydrogen Bomb: The Greatest Byproduct Of The Cold War

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The hydrogen bomb was built in 1952, and is known as the greatest byproduct of the cold war. The invention of this bomb gave America tremendous amounts of technological power over the Soviet Union (in the cold war). Seven years before the hydrogen bomb was made, America built the atomic bomb. This invention created a monopoly of nuclear arms (for America) and incited the cold war. Soon (in 1949), the USSR also created an atomic bomb, which ended America’s monopoly of nuclear arms and began to cause unsettling fear among Americans. In response, President Harry Truman frantically organized a team create a “super bomb.” This bomb would be equivalent to 50 million tons of TNT (more than all the explosives used in World War II), and would be known

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