You know we're living in interesting times when "nuke the ocean floor" makes it onto the list of climate solutions. A new ...

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One prime reason is that leaders of the U.S. armed forces have been so closemouthed about the explosion of the experimental H-bomb last November at Eniwetok that nobody really knows what ...

The dogs are going down. That has been the theme for several weeks as the pickings have been slim in H-Bomb eligible games with an underdog of 6.5 points or more. With this the final week of 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For almost seven decades, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, Nihon Hidankyo, has been a consistent ― and persistent ― voice for the survivors of the atomic bombs ...