If a weapon similar to the "Ivy King" - the largest pure fission bomb ever tested by the US- were to be detonated in Dallas, ...

The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs ... off a frenzy of scientific work on fission around the world. The German "uranium ...

There are two main types of nuclear devices: fission and fusion weapons. Fission weapons split atoms of unstable heavy elements like uranium by firing neutrons into them. Each split atom releases ...

BARC worked on three types of weapon design: fission, boosted-fission, and thermonuclear. A well-known 1985 West German intelligence report cited one agent's unconfirmed report that the brief from ...

According to the Chosun Ilbo, Jung also guessed that North Korea would be testing a "pre-hydrogen" nuclear weapon, perhaps a "boosted fission weapon" that could the size and weight of nuclear ...