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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
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Elina Charatsidou obtained her BSc in Physics from AUTh Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece in 2017. She completed her MSc in Nuclear Energy Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2020. She is a PhD student within the SUNRISE Centre for sustainable nuclear energy research in Sweden, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She is working with Uranium Nitride (UN) fuel for fast reactors, integrating experiments and modeling analyses. Elina Charatsidou is a science communicator and creator of a scientific YouTube channel ‘Your Friendly Nuclear Physicist’ on public awareness of nuclear energy.
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