Despite a dry, slow start, " Race for the Superbomb, " a new edition of PBS's " The American Experience, " should be on everyone's TV-viewing calendar.
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The initial impetus behind the two-stage weapon was President Truman's 1950 promise to build a 10-megaton hydrogen superbomb as the U . S . response to the 1949 test of the first Soviet fission bomb.
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On Elugelab Island on the northern end of Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, on Nov . 1, 1952, the hydrogen Superbomb, code name Mike, was fired half a second before 7 : 15 a . m.
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At its best, " Superbomb " captures the mad atmosphere of national paranoia _ fanned by historical experiences like Japan's surprise attack on the US military base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 _ that drove the perilous arms race.
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After " Los Psycho Circus " managed to isolate Dinero from his partners, Monster Clown lifted him up to Murder Clown sitting on the top rope, who then dropped him down to the mat with a superbomb for the win.
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After the overthrow of the French Third Republic around 1930, Charles XI took the movement's position to reclaim Alsace-Lorraine from superbomb attack on Paris in 1944 and was succeeded by King Louis XIX, who made an armistice with Germany.
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Thus, in principle, a positron bomb could be a step toward one of the military's dreams from the early Cold War : a so-called " clean " superbomb that could kill large numbers of soldiers without ejecting radioactive contaminants over the countryside.
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During the final stages of the war, Carsten and the " Josephus Daniels " play a major role in the mid-ocean transfer of vital superbomb research into American hands, and helped in the liberation of Haiti which had been brutalized by CSA invasions.
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Featherston is annoyed at the display of US power, but takes it in stride, considering it was he who set off the first North American superbomb, that Newport News wasn't nearly as important a target as Philadelphia, and most importantly, he was still alive.
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""'Nuclear Secrets " "', aka " "'Spies, Lies and the Superbomb " "', is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama series which looks at the race for nuclear supremacy from the Manhattan Project through to Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme.
