State media said country had successfully used an H-bomb. — -- Initial test results suggest that an explosion in North Korean was not a hydrogen bomb, as the state government there has ...

On Nov. 1, 1952, the United States tested the world's first hydrogen bomb, code named Ivy Mike, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

South Korea is casting doubt on North Korea’s claim that it detonated its first hydrogen bomb. In the meantime, the United Nations Security Council is considering increased sanctions against ...

The first hydrogen bomb tested by the United States in November 1952 released the equivalent energy of 10,000 kilotons ... North Korea announced its first test of a hydrogen bomb, ...

Hours before the latest test, North Korean state media published photographs of leader Kim Jong-un inspecting a peanut-shaped device that it said was a hydrogen bomb designed to be loaded on a new ...

The United States conducted the first H-bomb test in 1952 in the Pacific; the bomb produced a yield of 10,400 kilotons, around 450 times more powerful than the weapon used at Nagasaki.

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North Korea announced on state television that it tested its first hydrogen bomb. The announcement followed a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that shook near the rogue nation's nuclear test site, Punggye ...