Here’s how a nuclear bomb actually works. The B61 and the B83 nuclear bombs currently in the United States’ arsenal are thermonuclear, or hydrogen bombs, and quite different than the fission weapons ...

Ed Miliband has taken a bet on nuclear fusion one day powering Britain by making it easier for developers to build new ...

A fusion bomb, better known as a hydrogen bomb like the one North Korea says it successfully tested, ... Nuclear weapons in the hands of an unstable state like North Korea don’t bear contemplating.

Atomic bombs rely on fission, or the splitting of the nucleus of an atom, just as nuclear power plants do. The hydrogen bomb uses both fission and fusion — the fusing together of atomic nuclei ...

As a power source, nuclear fusion far surpasses its controversial counterpart, ... The hydrogen bomb represented an advance on the work spearheaded by J. Robert Oppenheimer, ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

Read about the nuclear fusion breakthrough announced by scientists on Tuesday. ... But the burst — essentially a miniature hydrogen bomb — lasted only 100 trillionths of a second.

The thermonuclear weapon uses fusion to create a far more powerful blast than an atomic bomb, according to The Atlantic. But, so far, there's been no independent confirmation that North Korea ...

Mankind tested hydrogen bombs, but not used them in war The U.S. first ran a test of its own hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952, during a mission called ...

TOKYO (AP) — North Korea says it successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb in its latest nuclear test Sunday. Outside experts haven't been able to verify that claim, but say it's plausible. If true ...

Experts believe North Korea has tested four nuclear bombs since 2006, in contravention of international regulations. Before Wednesday’s test, the most recent underground explosion occurred in 2013.