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What is the difference between nuclear fission and fusion?
There are two ways of releasing nuclear energy: fission and fusion.
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The true story of Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer became involved in nuclear research in 1941. His biopic, Oppenheimer,...
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View footage of the first test of a hydrogen bomb carried out by the United States in the Marshall Islands
In an operation code-named Mike, the first thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) was...
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Images
thermonuclear bomb
Thermonuclear bomb, code-named Mike, detonated in the Marshall Islands in November...
U.S. Air Force photograph
Thermonuclear warhead
The blast from a primary fission component triggers a secondary fusion explosion...
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Hydrogen bomb
Three of a series of photographs of the first thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb),...
U.S. Air Force photograph
Interactives
Manhattan Project interactive timeline
Major events and locations of the Manhattan Project.
National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Animation Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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