However, there is a key difference between atomic weapons and thermonuclear weapons, such as the H-Bomb, because the latter uses nuclear fusion in addition to fission reactions.

A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, can create explosive force hundreds or even thousands of times greater than an atomic bomb. Here's how the H-bomb contains such massive power.

Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents and devoted his life to undoing the danger he created. Richard L ...

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Experts have dismissed the registered seismic activity as too low a magnitude for a hydrogen bomb. By Mirren Gidda On 1/7/16 at 4:58 AM EST. How to Respond to North Korea's H-Bomb Test.

Richard Garwin, designer of the first H-bomb who also paved the way for MRI, GPS and touch-screens Garwin agreed with the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction, but said if he could wave a magic ...

After he drew up the hydrogen bomb, he went back to Chicago and walked around his bedroom, wondering what to do with his life. He’d done fundamental particle physics, but booking the cyclotron ...

The first is a useful collection of recent statements and articles, with commentary by Major George Fielding Eliot and introduction by Albert Einstein; the second, written by a well-known science-news ...

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H-Bomb 'Secrets' Many U.S. scientists, including those not connected with military research, are afraid to talk about the hydrogen bomb. They have seen too many colleagues pilloried for ...