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nov 1, 1952 - US tests the first hydrogen bomb

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The US raises the stakes in the nuclear arms race by detonating the first hydrogen bomb at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It is 500 times more powerful than the Nagasaki bomb.

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nov 1, 1952
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~ 73 years ago