(Sino-Japanese first month 27), March 1, 1954, a true hydrogen bomb test successful. used



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1954 March 1, 2011, the United States in the Pacific coral reefs of Bikini test: a true hydrogen bomb, from the nuclear arms race has entered a new and more terrible stage. Over the past few years, the Soviet Union and the United States have been studying thermonuclear device, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in the Pacific in 1952, 1953 in the Nevada Desert (small figure) has been testing a new device, the predecessor. However, the 1952 bomb "Mike" used liquid deuterium, use a solid lithium deuteride new hydrogen bomb, making it a much more practical military weapons. 500 times the power of the bomb is about 1945 atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima sinking.
official sources also said that the explosion so powerful, so that scientific measuring instrument can not write down in full force and effect. The explosion debris Injection far, has required safety area beyond the experiment. Said that the H-bomb explosions rocked the 176 sea miles from Kwajalein Island. Government officials also said that the United States is to reserve this has been tested a hydrogen bomb, the United States will be the more powerful hydrogen bomb device detonated in the next series of tests.
and a new, more ominous mushroom cloud appeared