Hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs are both nuclear weapons that can cause mass destruction. Most US nuclear weapons today were made in the 1950s and 1960s and are H-bombs. H-bombs are more powerful, ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) released a new roadmap for the US to realize the decades-long dream of harnessing fusion ...

Whereas traditional nuclear fission energy creates power by splitting atoms, fusion uses heat to create energy by melding them together. In the simplest form, it fuses hydrogen found in water into an ...

Seen as the ‘holy grail’ of clean energy, scientists are racing to turn a century of experiments into a viable source of ...

In a gleaming warehouse complex north of Seattle, David Kirtley is building what he hopes will be the future of power generation. Standing in front of a set of aluminum coils that look like an ...

Herman Kahn’s ponderous shocker, On Thermonuclear War, frequently mentions a weapon whose purpose is to end all human life: the Doomsday Machine. Kahn discusses its political uses as calmly as if it ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany has broken the record for plasma duration in a nuclear fusion reactor. Fusion reactions were sustained at high performance levels for 43 seconds, which is a ...

Not long ago many scientists feared that the public was forgetting the menace of the atom bomb. What many responsible scientists fear now is public hysteria caused by exaggeration of the ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's claim of a successful hydrogen bomb test marks a major step in the isolated country's long-stated goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile that puts the U.S.