Mr Garwin's contribution to the creation of the first hydrogen bomb was a well-kept secret for decades. Outside a select group of government, military, and intelligence officials, no one knew ...

On Nov. 1, 1952—63 years ago this week—the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion. Operation Ivy was conducted on ...

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.

The first test of a hydrogen bomb, nicknamed Ivy Mike, on Nov. 1, 1952, on the tiny island of Elugelab in the Enewatak Atoll of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Kenneth Ford, renowned for his popular books on quantum physics, has published his latest book entitled 'Building the H Bomb: A Personal History' with World Scientific. The book looks back more ...

In 1952, the United States detonated its first full-scale H-Bomb, a Teller-Ulam thermonuclear device code-named Ivy Mike, on Enewetak Atoll. Photograph courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory ...

A few weeks later, Garwin handed in a four-page memo with a large foldout drawing of how to construct that bomb. It was used to build the first test, 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima ...

March 1, 1954: The first droppable U.S. H-bomb was exploded. The Father of the Bomb. In the months after the President’s order, there is evidence of further delay.

The bomb was tested in 1955. RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The gun was rated at about 3 megatons.

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 ...

Mr Garwin's contribution to the creation of the first hydrogen bomb was a well-kept secret for decades. Outside a select group of government, military, and intelligence officials, no one knew ...