This was the basis of US hydrogen bomb tests in the South Pacific (Bikini Atoll) in the 1950s before the test ban treaty of 1963. Commercial application of nuclear fusion has been sought over the ...

Also called a fusion bomb, hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, a thermonuclear weapon is a second-generation nuclear weapon design that is vastly superior to the first-generation atomic bombs. In fact ...

Doing something for the first time is tough. Yet to replicate the nuclear fusion process that powers the very stars, and do it right here on Earth in a controlled and sustained fashion is ...

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

Scientists first harnessed fusion nearly 70 years ago with the development of the hydrogen bomb. Controlling reactions to produce continuous energy has, however, been proved impossible despite the ...

It was first used during the Second World War with the successful development of the hydrogen bomb – when scientists also realised that, if controlled, nuclear fusion could generate limitless ...