Claim: Franklin D. Roosevelt started the development of a nuclear weapon.
Evidence: As an active military leader , Roosevelt implemented a war strategy on two fronts that ended in the defeat of the Axis Powers , and he initiated the development of the world 's first atomic bomb.
The first test of a fission -LRB- `` atomic '' -RRB- bomb released the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tonTNT.
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions , either fission -LRB- fission bomb -RRB- or a combination of fission and fusion -LRB- thermonuclear weapon -RRB-.