The Oppenheimer dilemma: H-bomb vs A-bomb

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the development of the world’s first nuclear bomb: the atomic bomb. A weapon that devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But he was famously opposed to building hydrogen bombs. What makes the two nuclear bombs different?

Video by Tom Heyden, Natalia Guerrero and Sanjana Bhambhani 

27 July 2023