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 ...

Bikini Atoll looks like a perfect tropical paradise, but almost nobody can live there — because it became a real-world nuclear test site. In the 1940s and 50s, multiple atomic and hydrogen bomb tests ...

North Korea released a statement early Wednesday asserting that they have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, “a measure for self-defence the DPRK has taken to firmly protect the sovereignty of the ...

On January 31, 1950, U.S. President Harry S. Truman publicly announces his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more ...