Inside secret US lab where US will begin testing nukes again
A secret US nuclear weapons facility near Las Vegas may soon begin testing live bombs again as global tensions may be pushing ...
Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit offices of loans, nuclear security, sources say
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, ...
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A US Iron Dome won’t work and will weaken nuclear deterrence
The ability to retaliate makes deterrence work. Without it ... Russia and China will increase their nuclear weapon stockpiles and capabilities, forcing the United States to increase its missile ...
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The beginnings of the hydrogen bomb
Like all other work in the field of atomic weapons ... did not stop them from creating Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever produced and tested. A hydrogen bomb, the explosion ...
History Today15 天
The Development of the Hydrogen Bomb
The Soviet news agency Tass responded, laughably blaming the blast on large-scale construction work, while reminding everyone ... By 1961 the Soviet Union had a weapon which yielded an explosive force ...
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How the U.S. determines whether its nuclear weapons still work properly
The X-rays are used to take a look inside to see how well the plutonium would work if detonated. Scorpius will cost $2 billion to build down here. We walk deeper into the tunnel network. Some of the ...
WLRN17 天
How the U.S. determines whether its nuclear weapons still work properly
David Funk, who oversees work underground leads us in ... That means experiments that simulate conditions inside a nuclear weapon without triggering a nuclear chain reaction.