In 1966, a US bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs collided with a tanker aircraft, causing an explosion that killed seven crew members. The bombs fell near Palomares, contaminating two square kilometers of Spanish soil with radioactive plutonium. The US government worked to clear the area of contamination and used a mathematical technique called Bayesian search […]
A hydrogen bomb is a nuclear weapon that releases energy by fusing together light nuclei, unlike atomic bombs that release energy by fissioning heavy atomic nuclei. It is a two-stage weapon that uses an initial fission explosion to cause a fusion explosion. The first test of a hydrogen bomb was in 1952, and the most […]
