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.

Washington shifts towards India; Church Committee established into CIA, FBI crimes; Truman backs development of H-bomb; ...

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 informs the nation that an atomic weapon has been detonated in Japan. Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima ... Source: Harry S. Truman Library, "Army press ...