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In 1949, the cold war became a nuclear arms race when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb. United States military and ...

The state has a set of rules to ensure that any escaping hydrogen does not run the risk of explosion ... turn a hydrogen cell car into a hydrogen bomb with the force of 400 pounds of TNT, Jalonik ...

One of the more infamous and potentially catastrophic episodes of the U.S. nuclear program during the Cold War occurred in ...

They certainly got it independent of us. Look, the Soviets made their first atomic explosion in 1949. That set off debate on the Hydrogen Bomb, on which we had done little serious work for a long ...

A fission bomb is therefore used to detonate a surrounding mass of hydrogen. The resulting thermonuclear reaction, as it is called, is self-propagating until the reacting mass is blown apart by the ...

But this bomb within a bomb is "boosted" by adding hydrogen gas to the center of the core, making the fission explosion more powerful. That enormous power is essential to igniting fusion in the ...

Accompanied by a massive explosion, a towering mushroom cloud ascended into the sky, marking the successful air-dropped detonation test of China's first hydrogen bomb. This test was another leap ...