Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

China is building a large-scale laser-ignited nuclear fusion research facility in Mianyang to enhance both nuclear weapons design and clean energy pro ...

Thermonuclear weapons are nuclear weapons whose design uses the heat generated by a fission bomb to compress a nuclear fusion stage. Also called a fusion bomb, hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, a ...

China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in the southwestern city of Mianyang, experts at ...

For this reason fusion reactors are considered to be inherently safe. Can fusion reactors be used to produce weapons? No. Although hydrogen bombs do use fusion reactions, they require an additional ...

Satellite images suggest the experiment bay is 50% larger than NIF, raising concerns over its dual-use potential for clean energy and nuclear weapons development.China Making Fusion Bomb?

The number of Chinese operational nuclear warheads has increased by more than 100 to over 600, the Pentagon reported.

The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima ... nuclear fission and nuclear fusion reactions.

The Soviets wanted to learn about the effects of nuclear weapons ... design to the test. The bomb technology received its name due to its alternating layers of a fusion fuel, consisting of ...

Boosted weapons amplify a fission bomb's yield by packing it with some "heavy" hydrogen. During an explosion, this hydrogen partly undergoes fusion - the same process that powers the sun - and ...