That's over 1,600 times more powerful than the largest nuclear bomb ever tested (the Tsar Bomba). The explosion would pulverize billions of tons of basalt rock on the ocean floor, triggering a ...

Keep in mind, this was not a small thermonuclear device, sometimes colloquially called a “hydrogen bomb.” No fissile material ...

One prime reason is that leaders of the U.S. armed forces have been so closemouthed about the explosion of the experimental H-bomb last November at Eniwetok that nobody really knows what ...

the atomic bomb. A weapon that devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But he was famously opposed to building hydrogen bombs. What makes the two nuclear bombs different?

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Representatives of Nihon Hidankyo (the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), which is made up of survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

The torches illuminating the sub-zero night in Oslo, Norway, were dreamlike. With every step, the procession became larger. By the end, i ...

Tanaka is a co-chairperson of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Federation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, which will receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year. He said the “most significant ...

For almost seven decades, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, Nihon Hidankyo, has been a consistent ― and persistent ― voice for the survivors of the atomic bombs ...