Authorities told War Zone the Navy plans to file a series of patents after it emerged China is also working on similar technological advancements.

Testing for the super weapon was reportedly done as recently as Sept. 2019, with 1,600 hours of work logged between 2018 and 2019.

The Navy reportedly spent $466,810 conducting experiments for the project between 2017 and 2019.

The Navy reportedly spent $466,810 was spent conducting experiments for the project 

Hydrogen bombs are currently the most dangerous bombs on the planet, and can devastate whole cities in one explosion.

The bombs are also called H-bombs and rely on thermonuclear energy to detonate.

According to a report issued by an American think tank, only the US, UK, China, France, Russia, India, North Korea and Israel have hydrogen bombs.

Hydrogen bombs are a more sophisticated version of the first-generation of atomic bombs, the nuclear bomb, which was detonated over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945.

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