With Oppenheimer and Lilienthal removed , President Truman announced his decision to develop and produce the hydrogen bomb . The first test firing of an experimental H-bomb ( " Ivy Mike " ) was carried out in the Central Pacific on November 1 , 1952 , under President Truman . Furthermore , U.S. Navy Admiral Lewis . W. Strauss was appointed in 1953 by the new President Eisenhower as the Chairman of the AEC , to carry out the military development and production of the H-bomb
Ivy Mike
Ivy Mike
United States Atomic Energy Commission