Thermonuclear weapons are nuclear weapons whose design uses the heat generated by a fission bomb to compress a ... U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Atomic Energy Act in 1946 and ...

Truman ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to work on all forms of nuclear weapons. That included hydrogen bombs. And a man from Buffalo, Missouri wound up working on that project.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Friday is the 75th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s decision to authorize work on a hydrogen bomb. On January 31st, 1950, Truman ordered the Atomic Energy ...