Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under intense pressure to release energy. However, China’s device does not rely on nuclear fusion.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is the birthplace of the atomic bomb and has experienced hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and damage from previous wildfires.

During the first papal visit to Japan in 38 years, the pope, known for his strong advocacy for the sanctity of life, called for the elimination of nuclear weapons in addresses delivered in the two ...

An 'insidious' nuclear disaster dating back to World War II may have fueled an explosion of cancers and other rare, chronic ...

That very act saved their lives. Only two atomic bombs have ever been dropped in the history of mankind, both by the United States in 1945 in the final stages of the second world war. The first ...

He’s currently a resident at the Dayton VA's hospice center. Campbell’s family members said the veteran is one of the last two survivors who were with the U.S. atomic bomb testing program. The VA said ...

Iran has since accelerated its nuclear weapons program. Estimates now put Iran within months or even weeks of producing several bombs. A short time later, after a series of escalating threats ...

Birthday of Joseph Goldstein, American biochemist who received the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that ...

If South Korea makes a dash for the bomb, Japan will have no choice but to follow suit. Smoke rises above Hiroshima, Japan, after the first atomic bomb was dropped in this Aug. 6, 1945 ...