A fission bomb is therefore used to detonate a surrounding mass of hydrogen. The resulting thermonuclear reaction, as it is called, is self-propagating until the reacting mass is blown apart by the ...

Why it's so special: Not all stars in the night sky are what they seem. Take R Aquarii, a point of light roughly between where Saturn and Jupiter appear in the sky right now. It's two stars, not one.

Nuclear tests continued in the Marshall Islands. On March 1, 1954--exactly 70 years ago--the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb was detonated. The flippancy of the bomb’s name greatly offends me.

Teller, father of the Hydrogen Bomb, is featured prominently in the critically-acclaimed Chris Nolan film. In that 1999 chat with Teller, we covered much of what’s depicted in the flick ...

"Is it really true? Unbelievable!" Mimaki screamed. Toshiyuki Mimaki, president of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks in an anti-atomic ...

But just seven years after dropping the atomic bombs, the United States detonated an even more powerful nuclear weapon: the hydrogen bomb. A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb ...

But just seven years later an even more destructive nuclear bomb was built — the hydrogen bomb. Each type of nuclear weapon's enormous power can be explained via Einstein's famous equation E=mc ...

Hidankyo was formed 11 years later in 1956. There was a growing anti-nuclear movement in Japan in response to U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific that led to a series of radiation exposures by ...

Hibakusha joined with survivors of nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific to form the Japan Confederation of A- and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations in 1956. Advertisement "Nihon Hidankyo has provided ...