Atomic bombs work via a process called nuclear fission that involves atom splitting. Shortly after scientists discovered nuclear fission, the possibility of a bomb was quickly realized. Albert ...

Asked a reporter at President Eisenhower’s press conference last week: Was the great thermonuclear explosion in mid-Pacific last year a “bargain basement U-bomb”—a sort of “super H-bomb with a jacket ...

DECRA Fellow, Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications, Australian National University A nuclear bomb, like any bomb, makes an explosion by releasing an enormous amount of energy at ...

Here’s how a nuclear bomb actually works. The B61 and the B83 nuclear bombs currently in the United States’ arsenal are thermonuclear, or hydrogen bombs, and quite different than the fission weapons ...