Keep in mind, this was not a small thermonuclear device, sometimes colloquially called a “hydrogen bomb.” No fissile material ...

In the early 1960s, the Institute grappled with going beyond “Duck and Cover.” The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in ...

Representatives of Nihon Hidankyo (the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), which is made up of survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

One prime reason is that leaders of the U.S. armed forces have been so closemouthed about the explosion of the experimental H-bomb last November at Eniwetok that nobody really knows what ...

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the atomic bomb. A weapon that devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But he was famously opposed to building hydrogen bombs. What makes the two nuclear bombs different?

The torches illuminating the sub-zero night in Oslo, Norway, were dreamlike. With every step, the procession became larger. By the end, i ...

If my dotty immigrant mother were around, I could bug her about that — would not drop an atomic bomb, much less a hydrogen bomb, on a sacred state of the formerly greatest country in the world ...