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Quote1 It was a fusion device created for a strategic defense project. Developing offensive weapons was never my intent. Quote2
Bruce Banner[src]

History

The Gamma Bomb was a nuclear weapon designed by Dr. Bruce Banner. The bomb had a high gamma radiation output.

Bruce Banner (Earth-616) from Incredible Hulk Vol 1 1 002

Explosion

Banner was present in the instrumentation bunker at the test site for the first underground detonation of the gamma bomb. Observing that a civilian had breached security and entered the restricted test area, Banner told his colleague Igor Starsky to delay the countdown while he tried to get the civilian to safety. Starsky, secretly a Soviet agent, did nothing, confident that Banner would die in the explosion, bringing the project to a halt. Reaching the civilian, a teenager named Rick Jones, Banner threw him into a protective trench. Before Banner could get himself to safety, the gamma bomb detonated. Intense waves of radiation reached the surface and Banner was irradiated with highly charged radioactive particles. Banner died, but the Gamma Bomb created a metaphysical barrier called the Green Door that connected Earth with the Below-Place, the bottom layer of the Multiverse. The Green Door brought Banner back to life, but the time span between his death and resurrection was so short, his death went unnoticed.[1] Following his quick revival, Banner was mutated by the radiation and it caused him to transform into the Hulk for the first time.[2]

It was modified somewhat by Tony Stark which decreased the blast radius thus inadvertently saving the lives of Bruce and Rick.[3]

Elliot Franklin later developed an advanced miniaturized bomb.[4]

A later American test of a small gamma bomb inadvertently created Digger.[5]

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