H bombs

W. S. Dutton, One Thousand Years of Explosives from Wildfire to the H Bomb, Winston, Philadelphia, 1960. 

At the Installation, Sakharov worked with many colleagues, in particular Yakov Zcldnvich and David Frank-Kamenetskii. Sakharov made key contributions to the Soviets first full-fledged H-bomb, tested in 1955. He also made many contributions to basic physics, perhaps the most important being his thesis that the universe is composed of matter (rather than all matter having been annihilated against antimatter) is likely to be related to charge-parity (CP) noninvariance. 

Street names for MDMA, besides ecstasy, include Adam, E, ecsta eve. Eve, H-bomb (with heroin), hug drug, love drug, M, pikachu (with PCP), psychedelic amphetamine, Versace, X, and XTC. Tablets of ecstasy usually have imprinted monograms. Some examples include E-mail, D G, Rolex, Nike, Fred Flint-stone, Pokemon, Batman, and cupid. 

The first Fusion Type Atomic Bomb (also known as Hydrogen Bomb, H—Bomb or Thermonuclear Bomb) was tested at Eniwetock and proved to be successful. The bomb was of several megatons (millions of tons of TNT equivalent) (Vol 1 of Encycl, p A499-L R)... 

Brodie, Bernard Fawn, From Crossbow to H-Bomb , Indiana University Press, Bloomington (1973), 320 pp... 

W.Sh. Dutton, "One Thousand Years of Explosives, From Wildfire to the H-Bomb", Winston, Philadelphia (I960)... 

A brief description of fusion- or hydrogen bomb (H-Bomb) is given in Vol 1 of Encycl, p A499, under Atomic (or Nuclear) Bomb Refs 1) Hackh s Dict(1944), 363-R 2) CondChemDict (1961), 523-R(Fusion) ... 

Fusion in H-bombs is ignited by a fission chain reaction of uranium or plutonium an atom bomb is used to set off the hydrogen bomb. The first hydrogen bomb test was conducted in 1952 on the Pacific... 

Ecstasy tablets are often laced with other drugs such as LSD, amphetamine, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), and Rohypnol (Roofies). Some tablets are even named according to the drugs they contain. For instance, an H-Bomb refers to Ecstasy mixed with heroin. More often than not, the user is not even aware that the... 

For a full account of these developments, see Lorna Arnold, Britain and the H-Bomb (Basingstoke Palgrave, 2001). 

Arnold, Britain and the H-bomb Wynn, RAF Strategic Deterrent, pp. 222, 235, 247-51, 262. 

In the pamphlet "Fire Fighting for Householders PA-B-4, issued by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, USGovtPtgOff, Washington,DC( 1958), several methods for fighting fires caused by various bombs, including A- and H-bombs, are briefly described... 

Thus a Fusion Bomb, (Hydrogen or H Bomb, a Thermonuclear Bomb) must contain meun of initiating both types of atomic explosion The three bombs exploded during WWII — in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, over Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945, and over Nagasaki on Aug 9, 1945 — were all of the fission type and of tens of kiloton(thousands... 

H Bomb (Hydrogen Bomb). See under Atomic Bomb A499-L... 

Harteck (1954) measured the amount of T in the lower atmosphere before H-bomb tests had added significantly to natural activity, and found 4000 and 3 TU in hydrogen and water vapour respectively. The amount of H2 in the atmosphere has increased in recent years due to industrial production (Schmidt, 1974). Circa 1950 there were about 1.5 x 1011 kg of H as H2, compared with 1.4 x 1015 kg as H20. Thus Harteck s values for natural T correspond to tropospheric inventories of 1.8 g as HT and 13 g as HTO. Because HTO is deposited in rain and by vapour transfer to the sea, its residence time in the troposphere is only about a week, similar to that of 137Cs (Fig. 2.8), and more than 90% of the atmospheric inventory is in the stratosphere. By contrast, the residence time of HT in the troposphere is several years (Mason Ostlund, 1979), and most of the atmospheric inventory of HT is in the troposphere. It is only necessary for a small fraction of naturally produced T to form HT to account for the high specific activity of hydrogen gas. 

Public interest in radioactive aerosols began in the mid-1950s, when world-wide fallout of fission products from bomb tests was first observed. The H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll in 1954 had tragic consequences for the Japanese fisherman, and the inhabitants of the Ronge-lap Atoll, who were in the path of the fallout. In 1957, radio-iodine and other fission products, released in the accident to the Windscale reactor, were tracked over much of Europe, and these events were repeated on a much larger scale after the Chernobyl accident. 

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