Today in History - January 31, 1950 - Truman Announces the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb

January 31, 1950 - Truman Announces the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb

   The Hydrogen Bomb is hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb. Kind of scary.

U.S. President Harry S. Truman publicly announces his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II.

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