here’s what to know about atomic and hydrogen bombs: More than 200,000 people died in Japan after the U.S. dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and then another one three days ...

The US delivered its first B61-13 nuclear bomb nearly a year early. With enhanced yield and precision, it modernizes a key ...

as are the differences between the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb. When J. Robert Oppenheimer saw the first successful atomic bomb test, he allegedly said something rather profound but that might ...

How powerful are hydrogen bombs? Think of it this way: They use atomic bombs just as a trigger ... to as a thermonuclear reaction. The first hydrogen bomb tested by the United States in November ...

The bomb was dropped so that Japan would quickly surrender, and the war would end, instead of more lives being lost over the course of a continuing war. On Aug. 6, 1945, the first of two atomic ...

Seven years after the end of WWII, the US detonated the world's first hydrogen ... Tsar bomb created a 50 megaton explosion — nearly 1,500 times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped ...

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By 1955, the Soviet Union had detonated their first hydrogen bomb. And even though Soviet ... 1,400 times the combined yield of the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Richard L. Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, died Tuesday, his daughter-in-law, Tabatha Garwin confirmed to CBS ...

The difference between thermonuclear bombs and fission bombs begins at the atomic level. [The 10 Greatest Explosions Ever] In contrast, the first test of a thermonuclear weapon, or hydrogen bomb ...