When he and mathematician Stanislaw Ulam finally came up with an H-bomb design that would work, Teller was not chosen to head the project. He left Los Alamos and soon joined the newly established ...

Truman approved using more resources to accelerate the development of the hydrogen bomb. The design introduced the concept of staging and using the energy of X-rays to ignite fusion. Their method ...

and polarizing design, but it proved successful to Ukrainian forces which scavenged parts from the hydrogen car to create the ...

As the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Program on Science and Global Security celebrates its 50th ...

the Soviet press announced that the USSR had tested a hydrogen bomb. Eight days prior in Kazakhstan, the explosive device “Joe-4” put to the Soviet developed “layer cake” design to the test.

The 1954 film 'Godzilla' launched a franchise that has been warning viewers to take better care of the Earth for the past 70 ...

On Oct 16, 1964, a huge mushroom cloud rose from the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, ...

A worker of the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper hands out copies of an extra version to passersby in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, after Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb ...

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings ...

The 2024 Nobel Prizes have been announced, honoring advancements in physiology or medicine (microRNAs), physics (artificial ...