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The hydrogen bomb is one of the most innovative, terrifying, and politically consequential inventions in history. Most accounts of the H-bomb’s story revolve around the first full-scale test, conducted in fall, 1952. But the H-bomb’s biography can be traced back to 1920, when the concept of nuclear fusion was first imagined as a process for powering the stars. Learn about the key discoveries and the brilliant scientists who made them during the formative years of thermonuclear research.
Alan Carr serves as a program manager and the senior historian for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). During his tenure as a laboratory historian, Carr produced several publications and lectures pertaining to the Manhattan Project, nuclear testing history, and the historical evolution of LANL. Carr completed his graduate studies at Texas Tech University.