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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By William J. Broad / The Bulletin
January 2, 2009
A defining moment of the Cold War came in 1955, when Moscow detonated its first hydrogen bomb — a weapon roughly a thousand times more powerful than atom bombs and ideal for obliterating large cities.
The bomb ended the American monopoly and posed a deadly danger. So Washington dealt....