China's state TV broadcaster has revealed details of a new "graphite bomb" that can cause a "complete loss of electricity" ...

The bomb was then reassembled in about 10 hours at the Qinghai site and prepared for China’s first nuclear explosion. In total, it took China only some three to five weeks to convert the UF6, cast ...

LAS VEGAS – It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an ...

A soldier walks between a Chinese made atomic bomb, left, and a combination hydrogen/atomic bomb, right, on display at the Military Museum in Beijing, China on July 16, 2007.

TOKYO, Oct. 16, 1964 (UPI) -- Red China today exploded its first atomic bomb. It then immediately proposed a world conference to ban use of nuclear weapons.The official New China News Agency, in a ...

An atomic bomb, according to Time, works by splitting heavy atoms, like uranium or plutonium, into smaller pieces. This process is called fission, and it releases a lot of energy.

On August 1, 1950, the "decision was made to send the 9th Bomb Wing to Guam as an atomic task force immediately." Ten B-29s, loaded with unarmed atomic bombs, set out for the Pacific.

Zhou Guangzhao, a renowned physicist and former president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has died at the age of 95, ... "Whether it is an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb, ...

Mao's theory on atomic bomb: They can't kill us all TOKYO, Oct. 17, 1964 (UPI) -- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung maintains that Communist China has nothing to fear from nuclear weapons.