How Did Truman Continue Research And Development Of Thermonuclear Weapons

In January 1950 president Truman made the decision to continue the research and development of thermonuclear weapons. He wrote a letter to Crawford H. Greenewalt asking him to take charge of overseeing the designs, construction, and operation of the new site to produce plutonium. They set up distant sites across the country and ended up having operations in 32 states. During the Manhattan Project the main focus was on the development of fission weapons but work on the hydrogen bomb was also taking place. In the study for the hydrogen bombs it was concluded that stars had to achieve their large output of energy from some kind of nuclear process. In the 1930’s Hans Bethe studied this release of energy. He suggested that the sun and other