The proposed plutonium pit facility at Savannah River Site will reconstruct a massive 500-room partially completely abandoned ...

Later, conflicting documents about whether the plutonium was inserted into ... and none of the crew saw an explosion after the bomb was dropped. In 2000, Derek Duke, a retired Air Force officer ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core ... detonated the world's first atomic bomb. The explosion vaporized the steel tower, sent a massive ...

the first US thermonuclear bomb test. Although initially estimated in 1959 to generate a blast equivalent to six megatons of TNT, the device yielded a 15 megaton explosion—allegedly the most ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

The neutrons will show how plutonium behaves in a higher radiation environment such as the core of a bomb. The final stop on ...

This image from 1945 shows Manhattan Project physicist Harold Agnew smiling and holding the plutonium core of one ... the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945 ...

The energy density is mind-boggling: a sphere of metal 10 cm in diameter and weighing just 8 Kg is enough to produce an explosion at least as big as the one that devastated Nagasaki in 1945. But apart ...