Those who previously had doubted whether a fission-fusion bomb would be feasible at all were converted into believing that it was only a matter of time before both the USA and the USSR had developed multi-megaton weapons.
Dem som tidligere havde tvivlet på, hvorvidt en fission-fusion bombe ville kunne lade sig gøre blev overbevist til at tro, at det kun var et spørgsmål om tid før både USA og USSR havde udviklet multi-megaton våben.