Expert consensus now is that that was, if anything remarkable, a boosted fission reaction, where where a small amount of fusion prolongs the fission reaction of the bomb, making it more efficient ...

It was the height of the Cold War, and US scientists and engineers were working tirelessly to develop the world's first thermonuclear fusion bomb. The project, dubbed Operation Ivy, was set to ...

This source of energy can be produced in two ways: fission – when nuclei of atoms split into several parts – or fusion – when nuclei fuse together. The nuclear energy harnessed around the world today ...

A diagram of a thermonuclear warhead, ... (the fission bomb part used to obtain the high temperature and pressure to detonate the fusion bomb), ...