This Explosion Made Britain A Nuclear Superpower

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[00:00:00]In 1957, Britain joined an elite group of nations. On a remote Pacific island near Christmas Island, the United Kingdom detonated its first successful hydrogen bomb. The explosion was hundreds of times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

[00:00:15]As the mushroom cloud climbed into the sky, Britain became the world's third thermonuclear power.