“The idea that this monster is offshore, kind of like Godzilla waiting to be awoken, is a little scary” ...

The B-41 hydrogen bomb was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever fielded by the United States. This documentary traces how ...

JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on January 24, 1961, 18-year-old Billy Reeves came home from his late shift, kicked off his boots, and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Richard “Dick” Garwin, the designer of the hydrogen bomb and an advisor to a dozen US presidents, passed away on May 13, 2025, at age 97. At 21, Garwin obtained his doctorate from the University of ...

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 ...

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