To clarify, this is not a thermonuclear bomb (which uses nuclear fusion). Traditional hydrogen bombs work through nuclear fusion, a process where atomic nuclei combine under intense pressure to ...

Kayoko Mori, an 82-year-old Catholic atomic bomb survivor who also met the pope in Hiroshima, said, "Seeing him call for the abolition of nuclear weapons made me feel deeply that he was on our side. I ...

Veterans of Britain's nuclear weapons tests have battled the Ministry of Defence for seven decades over allegations it ...

triggering devastating chemical chain reactions without using any nuclear materials, according to a study published last month. The 2kg (4.4lbs) bomb generated a fireball exceeding 1,000 degrees ...

New Delhi: The race for nuclear weapons between India and Pakistan is intensifying. A recent report by American nuclear scientists states that India has now significantly surpassed Pakistan in ...

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 ...

The UN nuclear watchdog's chief Rafael Grossi warned that Iran was "not far" from possessing a nuclear bomb, shortly before he arrived in Tehran on Wednesday for talks. Western countries including ...

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A nuclear war would mean that five of the eight billion on Earth ... "On top of that you have the radiation poisoning because the ozone layer will be so damaged and destroyed that you couldn't be ...