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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The A-Bomb wasn't just tested by the U.S., as it was infamously used twice against an enemy combatant — the only times to date that nuclear weapons have been used in war — when it was dropped ...

"Go to the basement or middle of the building. Stay away from the outer walls and roof because radioactive material will ...

The mayor of Greater Manchester calls on the government to act while the remaining survivors of the UK's 1950s nuclear tests are still alive.

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.