According to Campain for Nuclear Disarmament (CNDUK), the heart of a nuclear explosion can reach numerous million degrees ...

Seven years after the end of WWII, the US detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb. H-bombs use a combination of nuclear fission and fusion and are far more powerful than atomic bombs. Edward ...

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 ...

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 ...

An American hydrogen bomb test in 1954 threw up an estimated "two hundred billion pounds of coral reef and the sea floor," after the weapons yield turned out to be nearly three times what U.S ...

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 ...

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.

These mushroom clouds directly addressed new sources of anxiety: the arms race (set off after the Soviets’ 1949 atomic test), the effects of radiation, and the hydrogen bomb and its even bigger ...

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 ...