That complexity could mean bigger fireworks ahead. With the sunspot now rotating to face Earth, it could pose a threat for stronger space weather events in the coming days. M-class flares, like those ...

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Today, with rising threats from stealthy cruise missiles and maneuverable hypersonic glide vehicles, missile defense has ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Richard Garwin, Chicago physicist who created the hydrogen bomb and worked to see it wasn't used, dead at 97 He served as a science adviser, focusing on nuclear deterrence, to every U.S. president ...

Thermal nuclear weapon, also known as hydrogen bomb, is a type of nuclear weapon which is based on the nuclear fusion process.

Richard Garwin drew up the plans for the hydrogen bomb and spent seven decades advising presidents on scientific matters ...

CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe A portable containment device that can be dropped on a truck.

Richard L. Garwin, a designer of the first hydrogen bomb, died Tuesday, his daughter-in-law, Tabatha Garwin confirmed to CBS News. The renowned scientist was 97 years old.

Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America’s hydrogen bomb, who shaped defense policies for postwar governments and laid the groundwork for insights into the structure of the universe as well as ...