Although wartime expediency demanded the more straightforward fission path to a weapon, such hydrogen bombs would soon become ...

Scientists have experimented to assess the ability of US nuclear weapons to hit the targets after encountering enemy missile defenses. The experiment was conducted by scientists from the Lawrence ...

Aug. 6 (UPI) --Eighty years ago today, the first of two atom bombs was used in anger. Hiroshima was vaporized. But one plane, one bomb, destroying a city was inconceivable. The Japanese now could ...