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1History of the Teller–Ulam design — This article chronicles the history and origins of the Teller Ulam design, the technical concept behind modern thermonuclear weapons, also known as the hydrogen bomb. HistoryTeller s Super The idea of using the energy from a fission device to… …
2Teller-Ulam design — The Teller–Ulam design is a nuclear weapon design which is used in megaton range thermonuclear weapons, and is more colloquially referred to as the secret of the hydrogen bomb . It is named after two of its chief contributors, Hungarian born… …
3Teller–Ulam design — The basics of the Teller–Ulam design. Radiation from a primary fission bomb compresses a secondary section containing both fission and fusion fuel. The compressed secondary is heated from within by a second fission explosion. The Teller–Ulam… …
4Violet Club — was a nuclear weapon deployed by the United Kingdom during the cold war.Violet Club was the first high yield weapon deployed by the British, and was intended to provide an emergency capability until a thermonuclear weapon could be developed from… …
5History of nuclear weapons — The history of nuclear weapons chronicles the development of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are devices that possess enormous destructive potential derived from nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reactions. Starting with the scientific… …
6Mushroom cloud — created by smoke billows Ascending cloud from Redoubt Vol …
7Nuclear weapon — A bomb redirects here. For other uses, see A bomb (disambiguation). The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945 …
8Edward Teller — The native form of this personal name is Teller Ede. This article uses the Western name order. Edward Teller Edward Teller in 1958 as Director of the Lawrence Livermore Nat …
9Yellow Sun — was the first British operational high yield strategic nuclear weapon. The name actually refers only to the outer casing, the warhead (or physics package) was known as Green Grass in Yellow Sun Mk.1 and Red Snow in Yellow Sun Mk.2 . The ENI or… …
10B53 nuclear bomb — The B53 with a yield of 9 Mt is one of the most powerful nuclear weapons built by the United States, and one of the last very high yield thermonuclear bombs in U.S. service. Development Development of the weapon began in 1955 by Los Alamos… …
