and polarizing design, but it proved successful to Ukrainian forces which scavenged parts from the hydrogen car to create the ...

Thermonuclear weapons are nuclear weapons whose design uses the heat generated by a fission bomb to compress a nuclear fusion stage. Also called a fusion bomb, hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, a ...

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.

the Soviet press announced that the USSR had tested a hydrogen bomb. Eight days prior in Kazakhstan, the explosive device “Joe-4” put to the Soviet developed “layer cake” design to the test.

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 ...