The GEORGE Shot, was the first nuclear explosion ?
The GEORGE Shot, was the first nuclear explosion to test principles that would lead to hydrogen bombs. It was the world's first thermonuclear burn of heavy isotopes of liquid hydrogen (deuterium and tritium). May 8, 1951
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