By May, a test explosion used a fission bomb to successfully ignite a small quantity of deuterium and tritium. In September, Los Alamos proposed testing the Teller-Ulam concept in November 1952.

The Soviet news agency Tass responded, laughably blaming the blast on large-scale construction work, while reminding everyone that Soviet foreign minister Molotov had announced in 1947 that the USSR ...

The promise of fusion energy is alluring. If, and when, it comes through, other sources of alternative clean energy, like ...

China is building a large-scale laser-ignited nuclear fusion research facility in Mianyang to enhance both nuclear weapons ...

The process begins with the injection of deuterium and helium-3 gas into each end of the reactor. This gas is then heated to form a plasma, which is subsequently shaped and accelerated by magnetic ...

Piette, L. H., Rempel, R. C., Weaver, H. E., and Flournoy, J. M., J. Chem. Phys., 30, 1623 (1959).

An enormous bomb cyclone will slam Ireland late Thursday, bringing intense rain and wind on its way to delivering a separate blow to the United Kingdom. Damaging winds are expected across a wide ...

Just when you thought January couldn’t get any worse, the Met Office has warned that a huge storm is set to hit the UK this weekend. Yes, that’s right, another brutal storm. On their website ...

The government has ordered offshore energy firms to avoid "noisy" detonations when disposing of unexploded bombs on the seabed, in a bid to protect vulnerable marine life. There are still more ...

The Wichita County Sheriff’s Office found a bomb northeast of Wichita Falls Sunday. Sheriff David Duke said a passerby spotted the device on the bank off the Wichita River at the bridge over FM ...

Peru declared a state of emergency on Monday, following the detonation of explosives attacking the Public Ministry of Trujillo. Monday’s incident marks the second attack in Trujillo this year. In the ...

This is significantly below the level needed to create a bomb. However, Trump withdrew from the Iran deal during his first term as president, saying it was “horrible” and “one-sided”.