China has recently made a significant move in weapon technology with the successful detonation of a new type of hydrogen-based explosive device. Developed by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation’s ...

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 ...

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 Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents and devoted his life to undoing the danger he created. Richard L. Garwin, ...

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 ...

Troops carried out multiple mock hydrogen bomb drills in the early 1970s, potentially for use against the Soviet Union or ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Many scientists contributed to the final result, but he was the one who, as a young physicist, designed the world’s most powerful weapon. He went on to advise a dozen presidents. By Robert D. McFadden ...

Richard L. Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, died Tuesday, his daughter-in-law, Tabatha Garwin confirmed to CBS News. The renowned scientist was 97 years old. A prominent scientist who ...