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 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 ...

Richard Garwin, Chicago physicist who created the hydrogen bomb and worked to see it wasn't used, dead at 97 He served as a science adviser, focusing on nuclear deterrence, to every U.S. president ...

A hydrogen bomb can be far more powerful than the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Japan in World War II. The U.S. conducted the first successful tests of hydrogen bombs in the 1950s.

Although the first hydrogen bomb was constructed to his specifications, Garwin was not even present to witness its detonation at Enewetak. “I’ve never seen a nuclear explosion,” he said in ...

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 ...

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