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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 ...
US President Donald Trump's statement regarding the nuclear bomb has raised fears worldwide that the pursuit of weapons of ...
About 60 years ago, Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich said nuclear fusion “will be ready when society needs it”. The UK has achieved a “major breakthrough for fusion energy research”, the UK Atomic ...
Nuclear fusion could produce almost boundless energy with zero emissions or waste, but is not yet viable on a large scale because of the cost and difficulty generating the right conditions.
A critical shortage of fuel for nuclear fusion reactors may have a rather counterintuitive solution. A physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) says that fusion reactor fuel could be ...
Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun, has the potential to generate clean and abundant energy. However, it requires two atomic nuclei to collide head-on at high energies, and current fusion ...