Nuclear science is on the verge of developing a “third-generation weapon as radically different from the H-bomb as the H-bomb was from the Hiroshima-type A-bomb,” warned Thomas E. Murray ...

It is "grimly fortuitous timing" that "Britain's Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story" is being broadcast on BBC Two just as "Vladimir Putin's finger seems to be hovering close to the red button", said ...

Red China today exploded its first atomic bomb. It then immediately proposed a world conference to ban use of nuclear weapons.The official New China News Agency, in a Peking broadcast monitored ...

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More than a year ago, two Washington reporters, piecing together many fragments from the public record of the hydrogen bomb’s history, concluded that: 1) there had been unnecessary delays in the ...

Russia has started mass production of mobile bomb shelters that can offer protection for up to 48 hours in case of a nuclear weapon attack. The ominous move by Moscow comes alongside the other ...

(via Kurzgesagt) At the height of the Cold War, a terrifying concept emerged: a bomb so powerful it wouldn’t need to be dropped. Known as Project Sundial, this doomsday device would have left a 400-km ...

“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 ...

The recent escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war has led to increasing talk of nuclear war, especially following repeated threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin against NATO countries.