As tensions rise between countries, the use of advanced weaponry like vacuum bombs becomes more common. Here's how they ...

This is apparently because thermonuclear weapons are important national secrets and the government did not allow details to be shown. This diagram also appears in the Nuclear Issues Handbook 2020 ...

Suppose a relatively small nuclear weapon had exploded over central Florida. It would have made the damage of the two ...

During the Cold War, the US produced hundreds of plutonium pits each year at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. However, ...

The country is likely in possession of 80 to 90 nuclear warheads of uranium and plutonium, and this number is likely to rise ...

The Yankee-class submarines were the first Soviet nuclear-powered ballistic missile subs capable of launching thermonuclear ...

Boron powder can be used to shield tokamak walls from the extreme heat of fusion, presenting a solid strategy for sustainable ...

Nuclear arsenals are vastly more powerful today than during the Cold War — and the risk of apocalypse keeps growing ...

Here's a Nukemap simulation of what might have been the blast radius and fallout zone of the Goldsboro incident: Both bombs were a thermonuclear design. So instead of just one nuclear core ...

Veterans who took part in Britain’s nuclear testing programme during the 1950s and 60s are being honoured by a new memorial.

Cinema’s hardest-working, radioactive reptile stomps into a new age of atomic terror ...

With the damage wrought by these two hurricanes very much in mind, appreciating the power of fission (nuclear) and fusion (thermonuclear weapons) is important given Iran’s activities and China ...