Throughout history, the idea of misplacing a nuclear weapon may sound like a plot twist in an espionage novel. The United ...

Perhaps most importantly, Germany developed gas centrifuges, which are more efficient than calutrons and gaseous diffusion ...

These revelations touched off a frenzy of scientific work on fission around the world ... the many myths associated with the German nuclear weapons effort had it) because of a mistake the ...

Can fusion reactors be used to produce weapons? No. Although hydrogen bombs do use fusion reactions, they require an additional fission bomb to detonate. Working conditions of a magnetically-confined ...

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 ...