According to Campain for Nuclear Disarmament (CNDUK), the heart of a nuclear explosion can reach numerous million degrees celsius, while creating a blast wave that causes a jump in air pressure, ...

The most recent H-bomb test (by the Russians) was made in Siberia about three months ago, but the fallout of fear and worry that the H-bomb tests have caused has by no means died away. Like the ...

A seemingly harmless everyday accident was responsible for the destruction of an Arkansas nuclear missile silo. Here's how ...

Richard Garwin drew up the plans for the hydrogen bomb and spent seven decades advising presidents on scientific matters . Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents and devoted his life to undoing the danger he created. Richard L ...

The hydrogen super-bomb, ... Eniwetok proving ground in the Pacific wrote vivid reports in letters home of the H-bomb's incomparable blast and flame effects. Many gave Nov. 1 as H-day.

"Go to the basement or middle of the building. Stay away from the outer walls and roof because radioactive material will ...

The largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated was “Tsar Bomba,” tested by the Soviet Union in 1961. It had an explosive yield equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT.

Richard L. Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, died Tuesday, his daughter-in-law, Tabatha Garwin confirmed to CBS News.The renowned scientist was 97 years old. A prominent scientist who ...

China has reportedly tested a cutting-edge, non-nuclear hydrogen bomb built from magnesium hydride, generating a searing fireball over 1,000°C that lasted 15 times longer than traditional TNT.

Loaded on his plane was a 7,600-pound Mark 15 hydrogen thermonuclear bomb. Of all the things to be carrying after a mid-air collision, that may just be the worst. Had it gone off or fallen out of the ...

Although the first hydrogen bomb was constructed to his specifications, Garwin was not even present to witness its detonation at Enewetak. “I’ve never seen a nuclear explosion,” he said in ...