hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, a thermonuclear weapon is a second-generation nuclear weapon design that is vastly superior to the first-generation atomic bombs. In fact, their destructive power is so ...

On November 1, 1952, the US tested Ivy Mike over the Marshall Islands. Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, almost 700 times stronger than the bombs used ...

On November 1, 1952, the US tested Ivy Mike over the Marshall Islands. Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, making it 700 times as strong as the first ...

The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning ... the Soviet press announced that the USSR had tested a hydrogen bomb. Eight days prior in Kazakhstan, the explosive device ...

Since any H-bomb testing by one nation is detectable by ... America is in a position to take the first step away from this age of uneasiness. Considerations arising from fear, which appear to ...

A hydrogen bomb—the type North Korea claims it tested—is many magnitudes more powerful than an atomic bomb, which was the type dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, killing 70,000.