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Article: IRAQ CLOSER TO HYDROGEN BOMB THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 15, 1991
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Byline: William J. Broad New York Times
Iraq's efforts to build a hydrogen bomb, described last week by the United Nations, were further along than generally believed and would also have sharply increased the destructiveness of its atomic bombs, according to weapons experts and United Nations documents.
Because hydrogen bombs can be hundreds or thousands of times more powerful than atomic bombs and vastly more destructive, some analysts expressed alarm about the recent disclosures. America's first hydrogen bomb, exploded in 1952, was about 700 times more forceful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945.
Overall, the Iraqi bomb ...