This video traces how Hitler’s rise shattered Europe’s scientific world and helped push figures like Einstein, Fermi, Szilard ...

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 ...

In November 1952, the United States carried out one of the most significant and terrifying weapons tests in human history ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Friday is the 75th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s decision to authorize work on a hydrogen bomb. On January 31st, 1950, Truman ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Richard Garwin at the White House on Nov. 22, 2016. AP ...

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 ...

Richard Garwin, an American physicist who made a seminal contribution to the development of the hydrogen bomb, worked on early technologies that went into the development of MRIs and touch screens, ...