This method used alternating layers of deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen) and uranium. For example, Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, a member of the Soviet nuclear weapons program, came up with a design called "sloika" (layer cake).
Specifications of various hydrogen bombs vary. On the other hand, hydrogen bombs use not only the energy from fission but also secondary fusion, which makes the explosion much stronger. Atomic bombs rely on fission - a process of compressing the core of uranium or plutonium, splitting it into parts, and therefore releasing a huge amount of energy. The reaction that causes the explosion is also different. While atomic bombs use either uranium or plutonium in most cases, hydrogen bombs also need additional isotopes of hydrogen, called deuterium and tritium. The Tsar Bomba was a hydrogen aerial bomb, also known as a thermonuclear weapon, which is usually described as a more advanced and powerful version of an atomic bomb. Who Was Who In Creating The 'Tsar Bomba'? Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was keen to show off the U.S.S.R.'s military prowess, so he ordered the creation of the most powerful bomb ever made. The Soviet Union was also working on developing a hydrogen bomb and managed to detonate its first true one in 1955. The United States had already tested the world's first hydrogen bomb - called "Mike" - in 1952 and their biggest nuclear device - called "Castle Bravo" - in 1954. The Military Race Is OnĪt the beginning of the 1960s, the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States was tense - the countries were in the middle of the Cold War, struggling for geopolitical, ideological, and military dominance. While its original purpose was to prove to the world, and especially to the United States, that the Soviet Union was capable of producing such devices, it also brought a surprising twist to the future testing of nukes.
The "Tsar Bomba," as it became known, was 10 times more powerful than all the munitions used during World War II.
On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear device ever created.
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