The hydrogen bomb

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Who

The Teller–Ulam design was created by Edward Teller, a Hungarian-Jewish physicist, and Stanisław Ulam, a Polish-Jewish mathematician; both had fled European antisemitism.

When

1951–1952

Where

Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

The hydrogen bomb, far more powerful than earlier atomic weapons, works by a two-stage design worked out in 1951 by Edward Teller and Stanisław Ulam. Both were physicists from Jewish families who had fled antisemitic persecution in Europe; the same fusion physics also underlies research into clean fusion energy.

Part of “The Gifts of the Jews” — verified Jewish contributions to the world, with sources.