The seven-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind M*A*S*H and Gosford Park, who would have turned 100 this year, changed how we ...

In a Pentagon town hall, new defense secretary vowed to make longer-term plans, deploy tech faster, and have fewer flag ...

Truman ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to work on all forms of nuclear weapons. That included hydrogen bombs. And a man from Buffalo, Missouri wound up working on that project.

On January 31, 1950, President Harry Truman signed an order to create a hydrogen bomb. Less than two years later, on November 1, 1952, the USA was the first to test a multi-stage hydrogen bomb, ...

Thermonuclear weapons are nuclear weapons whose design uses the heat generated by a fission bomb to compress a ... U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Atomic Energy Act in 1946 and ...

In the United States there had been urgent secret discussion of a new and vastly powerful 'super-bomb', but apparently the first President Truman heard of it was early in October 1949. Some of the Los ...

1953: A car ferry sinks in the Irish Sea in one of the worst gales of the winter, claiming the lives of up to 130 passengers and crew. On the same day, Isthmian League side Walthamstow Avenue draw 1-1 ...

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75 years ago: Truman orders development of the H-bomb On January 31, 1950, US President Harry Truman officially ordered the development of thermonuclear weapons, also known as hydrogen bombs.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle can’t split — because “their value is in being a couple,” a source told Page Six amid claims that Markle shopped a potential post-divorce book. A Vanity Fair ...

It was going to take something dramatic to encourage Prince Harry to settle. That was abundantly clear in everything he's said in the run up to this trial, and not purely from a personal point of ...