But just seven years after dropping the atomic bombs, the United States detonated an even more powerful nuclear weapon: the ...

The atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Japan in 1945 remain the only nuclear weapons ever used in warfare. But just ...

The huge bomb was detonated on 30 October 1961 off the coast of Severny Island near the Arctic Ocean and was called the Tsar ...

Striving for a world without nuclear weapons, a volunteer group in this west Japan city recently released a picture book to ...

Since any H-bomb testing by one nation is detectable by another, violations of the moratorium would be immediately evident to all the nations involved. In any case, it is doubtful if a nation ...

The story is traced onwards from the first atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, through the Russian nuclear blast of September 1949 to the eventual successful detonation of ...

On August 20, 1953, 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 ...

Bethe remained vigorously opposed to the H-bomb throughout his life although, he continued to return to Los Alamos as a consultant. He became a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee ...

Teller, father of the Hydrogen Bomb, is featured prominently in the critically-acclaimed Chris Nolan film. In that 1999 chat with Teller, we covered much of what’s depicted in the flick ...

That’s how retired sailor Roger Brinton describes the moment he saw Britain conduct a hydrogen bomb test at Kiritimati in the ...