A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, can create explosive force hundreds or even thousands of times greater than an atomic bomb. Here's how the H-bomb contains such massive power.

Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents and devoted his life to undoing the danger he created. Richard L ...

After he drew up the hydrogen bomb, he went back to Chicago and walked around his bedroom, wondering what to do with his life. He’d done fundamental particle physics, but booking the cyclotron ...

WASHINGTON -- The hydrogen super-bomb, capable of destroying whole cities in a flash with blast and fire, has now joined America's arsenal of atomic weapons. That, informed sources said Monday, is ...

Richard L Garwin, the creator of America's hydrogen bomb, died on May 13 at his home in Scarsdale, New York. He was 97. Over the course of his seven-decade career, Mr Garwin laid the groundwork ...

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Woodward called Biden's debate performance a “political hydrogen bomb." Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images There have been calls for Biden to drop out of the presidential race.

However, there is a key difference between atomic weapons and thermonuclear weapons, such as the H-Bomb, because the latter uses nuclear fusion in addition to fission reactions.

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