The hydrogen bomb is one of the most innovative, terrifying, and politically consequential inventions in history. Most accounts of the H-bomb’s story revolve around the first full-scale test, conducted in fall 1952. But the H-bomb’s biography can be traced back to 1920, when the concept of nuclear fusion was first imagined as a process for powering the stars. The Elegance of Fusion follows the key discoveries and the brilliant scientists who made them during the formative years of thermonuclear research.

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