For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as ...

Keep in mind, this was not a small thermonuclear device, sometimes colloquially called a “hydrogen bomb.” No fissile material ...

Debonair Harold Macmillan, the Tory Defense Minister (and wartime political adviser to General Eisenhower in North Africa), pridefully pointed out that Britain had figured out the H-bomb ...

At 1,000 ft. from “zero,” the point directly beneath the bomb, the wind whooshes out at 800 m.p.h., faster than the speed of sound. Two miles away, it is still blowing at 70 m.p.h. The bomb ...

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Representatives of Nihon Hidankyo (the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), which is made up of survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

“And the problem with a hydrogen car, if something goes wrong, it’s like the atom bomb went off,” he said. “You’re not recognizable. They'll say, ‘We thought it was Marjorie Taylor ...