{"id":20894,"date":"2016-01-18T18:13:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T02:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/why-its-so-difficult-to-build-a-hydrogen-bomb"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:06:24","slug":"why-its-so-difficult-to-build-a-hydrogen-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/why-its-so-difficult-to-build-a-hydrogen-bomb","title":{"rendered":"Why it\u2019s so difficult to build a hydrogen bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RNYe_UaWZ3U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Very true point &amp; question to raise.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s been more than 60 years since the US successfully tested the first hydrogen bomb. Since then only four other countries\u2014Russia, France, China, and the UK\u2014have been able to make one themselves. This week North Korea claimed it had, but you can <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/587398\/heres-why-experts-think-north-koreas-nuclear-test-wasnt-a-hydrogen-bomb\/\" target=\"_blank\">disregard Kim Jong-un\u2019s boast<\/a> for now.<\/p>\n<p>A few more countries\u2014India, Pakistan, South Africa, Israel, as well as North Korea\u2014have the know-how to build simpler forms of nuclear weapons: atomic bombs. Still, no other technology in the world has remained out of the hands of so many countries for such a long time. Why?<\/p>\n<p>It may be that the Cold War between the US and Russia deterred states from picking a battle with one of the big guns\u2014but that didn\u2019t stop India and Pakistan. Maybe the non-proliferation lobby after the Cold War convinced states that they don\u2019t need nuclear weapons (South Africa, indeed, gave up its arsenal in 1991)\u2014but Iran and North Korea kept trying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/588519\/why-its-so-difficult-to-build-a-hydrogen-bomb\/?utm_source=parMIT\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very true point &amp; question to raise. It\u2019s been more than 60 years since the US successfully tested the first hydrogen bomb. Since then only four other countries\u2014Russia, France, China, and the UK\u2014have been able to make one themselves. This week North Korea claimed it had, but you can disregard Kim Jong-un\u2019s boast for now. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63210,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20894\/revisions\/63210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}