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In the Summer of 1950, While Scientists at Los Alamos Were Feverishly Working on Calculations to See If the Classical Super, the Initial Design for the Hydrogen Bomb Would Work, the Weapons Laboratory Was Also Preparing for a New Series of Nuclear Tests in the Pacific. Among the Devices They Were Going to Detonate Was One That Would Involve Thermonuclear Reactions (I. E. the Fusion of Deuterium) and Tritium Atoms. the Test of the Device Came to Be Called "George".