Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an ...

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 ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

Time For India To Test Hydrogen Bomb? As global nuclear politics heats up again, a new question is echoing through New Delhi’s strategic corridors — is it time for India to revisit its thermonuclear ...

The simple truth is that the United States and its rivals have nuclear arsenals sufficient to end life on Earth many dozens of times over. The United States’ nuclear arsenal is not based on a single ...

The mushroom cloud from the world’s first test of a thermonuclear device (hydrogen bomb), over Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952. [AP Photo/Los Alamos National Laboratory] On ...

Six hours into a routine patrol mission over the Arctic, smoke began filling the cockpit of a B-52 Stratofortress carrying four hydrogen bombs. Captain John Haug and his crew fought to reach Thule Air ...