Speculation That H-Bomb Was Used In Nevada Test
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(Rec. 8.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 20. Dr. David Bradley, a physicist, who observed the early atomic tests, said to-day that he believed that the recent explosions in Nevada were tests of hydrogen-type bombs. Dr. Bradley said he had reached this conclusion by mathematical calculations based on reports that some of the explosions broke windows 80 miles from the scene of the detonations and that the destruction covered a radius of eight miles.
The first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima broke windows at a distance of 10 miles, and the destruction radius was one mile, according to Dr. Bradley, who said: “Since an explosion is a three-dimensional affair, this means that the weapon is roughly 500 times as powerful. “I am forced to conclude that the Nevada tests were not simply a more efficient type of uranium bomb, but an early model of a hydrogen-type bomb.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26353, 22 February 1951, Page 7
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