The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on ...

Chinese scientists have tested a hydrogen-based explosive device that produces a fireball with temperatures exceeding 1,000°C. The explosion lasts 15 times longer than a standard TNT blast ...

Hydrogen bomb tests continued, and in 1954, the US detonated its largest bomb — Castle Bravo — a 15 megaton blast over Bikini atoll. The explosion was over 1,000 times more powerful than the ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First ...

TOKYO, June 17, 1967 (UPI) - Communist China announced it successfully conducted its first hydrogen bomb test today in the air over the western part of the China mainland. The announcement was ...

Richard L. Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, died Tuesday, his daughter-in-law, Tabatha Garwin confirmed to CBS News.The renowned scientist was 97 years old. A prominent scientist who ...

In 1935, the world's first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City. In 1945, the first test of the atom bomb was conducted at a base near Alamogordo, N.M.

The first thermonuclear bomb test (hydrogen bomb), Ivy Mike, was conducted by the United States in 1952.The Soviet Union tested the Tsar Bomba in 1961, which was the most powerful bomb ever detonated.

Richard Garwin, Chicago physicist who created the hydrogen bomb and worked to see it wasn't used, dead at 97 He served as a science adviser, focusing on nuclear deterrence, to every U.S. president ...

If not for a Spanish fisherman who saw something and said something, the U.S. Air Force might never have recovered a missing hydrogen bomb during the Cold War. On Jan. 17, 1966, Francisco Simo y ...

Richard L. Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, died Tuesday, his daughter-in-law, Tabatha Garwin confirmed to CBS News. The renowned scientist was 97 years old.