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<strong>The</strong> Fathers of (US) <strong>Hydrogen</strong> <strong>Bomb</strong><br />

All thermonuclear weapons existing in the world today appear to be based<br />

on a scheme usually called the "Teller-Ulam" design (after its inventors<br />

Stanislaw Ulam and Edward Teller, two emigrants), or "staged radiation<br />

implosion" for a physically descriptive designation.<br />

Teller, Hungarian physicist,<br />

PhD 1930 Leipzig, Germany<br />

with Heisenberg. Emigration<br />

to the US 1935. He worked<br />

with Oppenheimer in 1943 -<br />

1946 on the Manhattan<br />

project.<br />

Stanislaw Ulan 1943;<br />

Ulam, Polish mathematician,<br />

came 1935 to US (Harvard),<br />

joined Manhattan project in<br />

1943<br />

Edward Teller

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