The hydrogen bomb, unlike the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima, generates energy through fusion by fusing isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. This fusion process requires extremely high ...

Ann Finkbeiner is a science writer who often writes about the intersection of science and national security. In 1951, Richard Garwin was 23, a junior physicist working summers at Los Alamos National ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1958, a midair collision forced a B-47 pilot to drop a hydrogen bomb into shallow ocean waters near Tybee Island, Georgia. Despite extensive military searches and later investigations, the Mark 15 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History! Yes, this is the same column, although I’m dropping the column title from the headline. Today, I’d like to explore the forgetfulness of humanity and ...