SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Friday is the 75th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s decision to authorize work on a hydrogen bomb. On January 31st, 1950, Truman ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to ...
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How a Nuclear Bomb Works

Here’s how a nuclear bomb actually works. The B61 and the B83 nuclear bombs currently in the United States’ arsenal are thermonuclear, or hydrogen bombs, and quite different than the fission weapons ...
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Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America’s hydrogen bomb, who shaped defense policies for postwar governments and laid the groundwork for insights into the structure of the universe as well as for ...