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nov 1, 1952 - US and USSR get Hydrogen Bombs

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the United States successfully detonated “Mike,” the world's first hydrogen bomb, on the Elugelab Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands. The 10.4-megaton thermonuclear device instantly vaporized an entire island and left behind a crater more than a mile wide.

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nov 1, 1952
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~ 73 years ago