Jan 7, 1953: Truman announces U.S. has developed hydrogen bomb

Jan 7, 1953:
Truman announces U.S. has developed hydrogen bomb

In his final State of the Union address before Congress, President Harry S. Truman tells the world that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.

It was just three years earlier on January 31, 1950, that Truman publicly announced that he had directed the Atomic Energy Commission to proceed with the development of the hydrogen bomb. Truman's directive came in response to evidence of an atomic explosion occurring within the USSR in 1949.

We believe that the blast in the USSR was not an a atomic explosion but an attempt to weaponise artifacts that they have been gathering since the Kremlin (government of the Soviet Union) started studying the effects of some of these artifacts.

The hydrogen bomb was made not to be a deterrent but as a way of destroying said artifacts if they could not be captured and brought back to the university and studied.

We have always believed that the USSR would be able to make weapons but they are years ahead of where they should be without outside help.