The Cold War - Nuclear Fear | 3
American History Tellers
The History of the Atomic Bomb
Teller predicted that a single hydrogen bomb would be at least 100 times bigger 1.5 megatons That's one and a half million tons of dynamite And maybe a bomb could even be as big as 15 megatons Even military leaders at the time understood that there was no military use for a bomb that big. The United States tested its first thermonuclear device in November 1952 I say device instead of bomb because it was as big as a house Still even though it wasn't the kind of bomb you could drop from a plane, Teller was right Hydrogen bombs were enormous Ivy Mike's yield came in at about 10 megatons. It vaporized an entire pacific island
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