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Originally Posted by Tim_t7
The Soviet Union was also a lot further ahead with the hydrogen bomb than the US, though they were second to test they dropped theirs from a plane. The US one was a fixed structure 4 stories high.
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Quick nitpick. While the first US Hydrogen explosion was 4 stories high, it was not meant to be a bomb, it was to test to see if the idea for compressing the hydrogen fuel would work. And the Soviet device, while a pretty impressive weapon, was not a hydrogen bomb, per se, but a boosted atomic bomb. It took them several more years before they constructed an actual Hydrogen bomb.