France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record. The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat à l'énergie ...

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 ...

Anhui Province has set a new record with a 1,066-second sustained fusion reaction. For 80 years, there has been a concerted effort to turn the incredible destructive power of the hydrogen bomb ...

Recently a flood of articles appeared in the press showing a US satellite photo of what was described as a huge laser ...

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

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 ...

which created the atomic bomb. A successful fission reaction, using uranium or plutonium, would create the enormous energy level required to trigger a fusion reaction of heavy hydrogen isotopes ...

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

Igniting fusion fuel allows researchers to study how such reactions work and how they might one day create a clean power source using the universe's most plentiful resource, hydrogen. It also ...

The physicists used a system designed to mimic the fusion reactions at the core of the sun by using hydrogen and deuterium gases as fuel. They say that to make nuclear fusion a viable source of ...

Related: Why do nuclear bombs form mushroom clouds? A bomb shelter doesn't necessarily guarantee safety in the event of a ...