During World War II, few working on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb had a good understanding of the effect of nuclear radiation. Before 1963, it was common to conduct ...
The explosion left behind a crater 300-400 feet ... 1954 Details: The largest nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States. A thermonuclear weapon, its explosive power came from nuclear fusion ...
Chinese researchers have allegedly developed a new high-power microwave (HPM) weapon with power equivalent to electromagnetic energy released by a nuclear explosion. Reportedly also relatively compact ...