Today, I’d like to explore the forgetfulness of humanity and the time the United States accidentally misplaced a hydrogen bomb — oops. I began investigating what happened between Feb. 2 through Feb. 8 ...

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

Now, according to Haverly’s calculations, he wants to bury a nuclear device, a classic hydrogen bomb, under the Kerguelen Plateau in the Southern Ocean, at a depth of two to three miles in the ...

Also called a fusion bomb, hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, a thermonuclear weapon is a second-generation nuclear weapon design that is vastly superior to the first-generation atomic bombs. In fact ...

The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...

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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?

Here’s What You Need to Know: Skies were clear, and the modified U-2Gs preformed well, snapping photos of the French test site without being detected. They snapped ...

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 ...