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2 unusual facts about einsteinium


Einsteinium

Einsteinium was discovered as a component of the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Albert Einstein.

The Tashkent Crisis

The action taken is to destroy the beam weapon in use by a pocket nuke consisting of an Einsteinium warhead contained within the stock of a modified pistol.


John R. Huizenga

After the war, as a result of the world’s first hydrogen bomb explosion on a Pacific atoll in 1952, Huizenga was part of the team that added two new synthetic chemical elements einsteinium and fermium to the Periodic table.


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