The head administrator of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, Jill Hruby, seems to have confirmed the transfer of new U.S. nuclear bombs to air bases in Europe as part of the quaint-sounding ...

To most of the U.S. public the hydrogen bomb was still a direful novelty last week, but to scientists there was little new about it. Long before the discovery of uranium fission they had known ...

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 ...

This was the case on January 24, 1961, when a B-52 bomber carrying two powerful hydrogen bombs took off on a routine mission over Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the mission, the plane ...

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 ...

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 ...