Introduction

• Published in: Super Bomb p. 1
• Main Authors: Ken Young, Warner R. Schilling
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cornell University Press 15.01.2020

The announcement by President Harry S. Truman on 31 January 1950 that the United States would seek to develop the hydrogen bomb, or “Super,” was dubbed by the former national security adviser McGeorge Bundy “this second great step in the nuclear age,” one from which “there was no turning back.”¹ It...