Teachers' Domain; Physical Science/Engineering; Fusion: The Hydrogen Bomb

During World War 2 the Manhattan project succeeded in creating an atomic bomb. A bomb that worked by fission or the splitting of heavy atoms like uranium. After the war physicist Edward Teller tried to enlist the support of his fellow scientists to develop a more powerful weapon based on fusion. The hydrogen bomb. Paktika the on my theory and said the Koreans as a said we have done a lot in 1945. Let's do a global I knew that at that time. But I simply think that you again your motives you have only barely stuffed up that much a book could be done in the head with you Bob and that was on the Happy to stop it. It was a mess. Stopped teller at a scientific level was an intense and the easiest very emotional bed but also an extremely brilliant but brilliant as one

of his colleagues stander Lom would write later not so much at the basic simple level of the most original work in physics but more fascinated with more complicated things. And here with something that was orders of magnitude more powerful and sophisticated than the atomic bomb. Like the sun the hydrogen bomb would gain its energy from fusion. The combining of small atoms into larger atoms. Using the atoms of light elements like hydrogen. Teller hope to use the enormous heat of an atomic blast to set off a fusion reaction in the hydrogen and create a bomb with it. No greater power than the atomic fission bomb. In the spring of 1946. Scientists gathered at Los Alamos to take a closer look at teller's idea.

Which had come to be known as the super the super conference was called Los Alamos in April of 1046. Basically in the spirit of putting away your fur coat with moth balls they had done a certain amount of work. Everyone was leaving. Let's get it all down on paper so we can set it the way and this is where we are at this point they'll be a record where they were was what has been called the super teller called the super a super bomb which was essentially a pipe filled with liquid doo tarea which is a kind of hydrogen with an atomic bomb screwed to one end. The idea was that the fission bomb would increase the temperature and pressure up the deuterium atoms enough so that the atoms were fused together forming larger atoms. This process would release an enormous amount of energy and a thermonuclear explosion would result.

It was presumably more complicated than that but that basically was the design.