Here is a quote from the authoritative U.S. The hydrogen bomb was also called the SUPER. The destructive power of an H-bomb is unimaginable as demonstrated by the subsequent 'earthquake' and tsunami. The device was either a copy of the German bomb or something invented by Teller at Los Alamos. HItler had already perfected it for use against a British or U.S. This hydrogen bomb explosion was triggered by a gun-assembly device similar to the one used on 'Little Boy'-the Hiroshima bomb. The Pentagon controlled world press reported it as an 'earthquake' and tsunami. Teller tested a hydrogen bomb in Alaska on April 1, 1946. Under the guise of the peaceful use of nukes he tested several H-bombs in Alaska under the code name Project Chariot. Edward Teller, center (1908-2003), t he so-called 'father of the H-bomb' visited Alaska frequently. established a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii.'( Intl. In 1948, and as a result of this tsunami, the U.S. Damage was estimated at $26 million (in 1946 dollars). Altogether a total 165 people lost their lives from this tsunami, including children attending school at Hawaii's Laupahoehoe Point, where waves reaching up to 8 m destroyed also a hospital. The waves completely obliterated Hilo's waterfront on the island of Hawaii, killing 159 people there. Without warning, destructive tsunami waves reached the Hawaiian Islands, five hours later, causing considerable damage and loss of life. The lighthouse was a steel-reinforced concrete structure standing about 30 meters above sea level. Coast Guard's Scotch Cap lighthouse on Unimak and killed all five of its occupants. A huge wave of 35 meters destroyed completely the U.S. 'One of the most destructive Pacific-wide tsunamis was generated by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake near Unimak Island in Alaska's Aleutian Island Chain. You will thus see that a considerable 'super' bomb is in the offing quite apart from the use of other nuclear reactions.'( Bush-Conant Letter on the Super Bomb, National Archives). All these possibilities reside only in perfecting the efficiency of the use of elements '25' and '49'. Further developments along this same line hold a possibility of producing a single bomb with such amounts of materials and such efficiencies as to run this figure up to several hundred thousand Tons TNT equivalent, or even perhaps a million Tons TNT equivalent.

in which case the same amount of material would yield something like 24,000 Tons TNT equivalent. 'By various methods that seem quite possible of development within six months after the first bomb is perfected, it should be possible to increase the efficiency.

President of Harvard University and scientific adviser to General Groves.

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