Seven years after the end of WWII, the US detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb. H-bombs use a combination of nuclear fission and fusion and are far more powerful than atomic bombs. Edward Teller, ...

The decision as to whether the U.S. should make a hydrogen bomb, said Harry Truman, is mine and nobody else’s. But there were a lot of people looking over his shoulder, and they seemed remarkably in ...

The Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle has hardly been an international sales success, thanks to poor hydrogen infrastructure, expense, and polarizing design, but it proved successful to ...

Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film "Oppenheimer" is out, bringing with it a renewed interest in everything nuclear physics. The film dramatizes the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his work ...

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. Garwin, ...

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