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The United States detonates the worldâ€Ös first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The
test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.
Following the successful Soviet detonation of an atomic device in September 1949, the United States accelerated its program to
develop the next stage in atomic weaponry, a thermonuclear bomb. Popularly known as the hydrogen bomb, this new weapon was appr
oximately 1,000 times more powerful than conventional nuclear devices. Opponents of development of the hydrogen bomb included J
. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. He and others argued that little would be accomplished except the
speeding up of the arms race, since it was assumed that the Soviets would quickly follow suit.The opponents were correct in the
ir assumptions. The Soviet Union exploded a thermonuclear device the following year and by the late 1970s, seven nations had co
nstructed hydrogen bombs. The nuclear arms race had taken a fearful step forward.
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