New Delhi: A major revolution in the arms race came when America invented the atomic bomb. The devastation caused by this weapon in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan shocked the entire world, though it ...

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi recently sparked a fresh political controversy by warning the BJP that he would “explode a hydrogen bomb, which is bigger than the atom bomb.” Addressing a gathering, he said: ...

Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America’s hydrogen bomb, who shaped defense policies for postwar governments and laid the groundwork for insights into the structure of the universe as well as for ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Friday is the 75th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s decision to authorize work on a hydrogen bomb. On January 31st, 1950, Truman ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to ...

Chinese researchers have successfully tested a non-nuclear hydrogen-based bomb, producing a fireball that burned over two seconds – 15 times longer than a comparable TNT blast. Developed by the China ...

Garwin (S.M. ’48, Ph.D. ’49) worked with Enrico Fermi at the University before designing the first hydrogen bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He later advised the government on national security and ...

Richard Garwin, who has died aged 97, was an American nuclear scientist who designed the world’s first hydrogen bomb and went on to become a presidential adviser on arms control, while helping to lay ...