Air Force set to launch ICBM in flex of US military muscle
The US Air Force will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in Southern California next week to test and flex ...
Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department
The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that ...
High Above Chernobyl, Workers Grapple With Ice, Fire and Nuclear Fears
After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage ...
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Deep underground, missileers watch over America’s nuclear weapons
Only Donald Trump can make the call to launch U.S. nuclear-armed ICBMs. Our reporter visits the subterranean world of the ...
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The fires of Hiroshima and Los Angeles: Apocalypse redux
The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...
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Here's a plan to detonate the world's largest H-bomb to end global warming - what could go wrong?
You know we're living in interesting times when "nuke the ocean floor" makes it onto the list of climate solutions. A new ...
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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...
Iran supreme leader criticizes proposed nuclear talks with US, upending push to negotiation
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, ...
Trump’s Orbital Missile Shield Could Aid His Nuclear Disarmament Foray
President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for cuts in atomic weapons arsenals with Russia and other nuclear powers.
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That Time the U.S. Lost a Hydrogen Bomb
I’d like to explore the forgetfulness of humanity and the time the United States accidentally misplaced a hydrogen bomb — oops.
The Place for History Digital Extra: The role a southwest Missouri man had in the development of the hydrogen bomb
Truman ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to work on all forms of nuclear weapons. That included hydrogen bombs. And a man from Buffalo, Missouri wound up working on that project.
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January 31, 1950 Truman wants a hydrogen bomb
On August 20, 1953, the USSR announced the successful testing of its hydrogen bomb, and thus began the thermonuclear race. The first experimental nuclear fusion reaction was carried out in 1934 by ...