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The U.S. first ran a test of its own hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands on November 1, ... the Commission did not go so far as to state that a full-scale hydrogen bomb had been ...

North Korea claims to test hydrogen bomb 02:36. North Korea's first three nuclear tests, from 2006 to 2013, were A-bombs on roughly the same scale as the ones used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which ...

North Korea claimed that a nuclear blast Sunday was a big advance from its previous five tests because it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb. But some experts suspect the North may have ...

In 1952, the United States detonated its first full-scale H-Bomb, a Teller-Ulam thermonuclear device code-named Ivy Mike, on Enewetak Atoll. Photograph courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory ...

On Nov. 1, 1952—63 years ago this week—the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion. Operation Ivy was conducted on ...

The 2kg (4.4lbs) bomb generated a fireball exceeding 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) for more than two seconds - 15 times longer than equivalent TNT blasts - without using any ...

Developed by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation's (CSSC) 705 Research Institute, the bomb uses magnesium hydride, a silvery powder that stores hydrogen more efficiently than pressurised tanks.

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.