Here’s What You Need to Know: Skies were clear, and the modified U-2Gs preformed well, snapping photos of the French test ... The first U-2s entered service with the United States in 1955 ...

When, in 1944-45, the United States perfected ... moratorium which would test Russia's sincerity and reassure the rest of the world of America's good will. Since any H-bomb testing by one nation ...

"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...

Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of ... Romeo was the second US nuclear detonation of the Castle Series of tests, which were conducted in 1954. All of the detonations ...

The Nation argued against the development of the hydrogen bomb in terms that apply to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the surveillance state today. Nuclear weapons test of the Bikini Atoll as ...

Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons ... Romeo was the second US nuclear test of the Castle Series, which were conducted in 1954. All of the detonations ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... of the test and gave the order for the countdown. A witness gave this account of the blast: "The earth trembled beneath us, and our faces ...

Also called a fusion bomb, hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, a thermonuclear weapon is a second-generation nuclear weapon design that is vastly superior to the first ... succeeded in testing an atomic ...

The project became known as Operation Ivy. About 2 years after Truman’s decision, Donald Whitman witnessed the first hydrogen bomb go off from about 30 miles away on a Navy ship. “In the diary ...