Beijing: In April this year, neighbouring China tested a new military technology that has raised eyebrows of several countries around the world. The 705 Research Institute of China's State ...

Every time a nuclear test was conducted abroad, Ichiro Moritaki (1901-1994) staged a sit-in in front of the Cenotaph for the ...

Norwegian Nobel Committee Chair Joergen Frydnes visited ground zero in Nagasaki on Wednesday and offered flowers to the ...

Thermobaric explosions are created by fuel-air explosive devices. This effect was discovered in 1785 when an Italian bakery suffered the first known dust explosion. Modern fuel-air weapons duplicate ...

Though Garwin viewed the creation of the hydrogen bomb as inevitable, and his role as relatively minimal in the grand scheme of the arms race, he dedicated much of his life to nuclear deterrence. He ...

Richard Garwin, who has died aged 97, was an American nuclear scientist who designed the world’s first hydrogen bomb and went on to become a presidential adviser on arms control, while helping ...

The Navy Supervisor of Salvage, the report noted, didn't think the bomb could be found. Energy Department engineers' best guess was that it lay "buried nose-down, probably 5-15 feet below the seabed." ...