Hydrogen bombs, considered nuclear weapons, work using a combination of nuclear fission and fusion. Edward Teller led their development in the 1950s.

Two years later, the United States conducted its biggest-ever nuclear weapon test: the Castle Bravo test had a yield of 15,000 kilotons. The Soviet Union holds the title for the largest hydrogen ...

The steel container "Jumbo," weighing over 200 tons and transported to the desert only to be eliminated from the test, was knocked ajar even though it stood half a mile from ground zero.

Thermonuclear weapons, often referred to as Hydrogen bombs or H-bombs, are nuclear weapons in which their extreme explosive powers are obtained through the process of nuclear fusion – the ...

The experiment pointed 192 lasers at a container holding a small pellet of fuel the size of a peppercorn, specifically made up of deuterium and tritium – both isotopes of hydrogen.

Until 1990, a total of 130 tests were carried out at the site, including the October 1961 detonation of the largest nuclear weapon ever tested, the 50MT AN602 Tsar Bomba hydrogen bomb, according ...