Sam Cohen, 89, a nuclear physicist who was credited with developing the concept of the neutron bomb, designed to inflict mass radiation casualties without causing significant damage to buildings ...

Designed to kill living things but inflict little damage on property, the neutron bomb has about a tenth the explosive power of other nuclear weapons. President Reagan ordered 700 neutron warheads ...

In the 20th century, Jews created bombs. Weapons of mass destruction. Most famously, there was J. Robert Oppenheimer who ran the Manhattan Project, which gave the world the atom bomb. After him ...

Sam Cohen, who invented the neutron bomb and then spent decades trying to persuade the U.S. to deploy the controversial weapon designed to kill people without damaging buildings, dies at 89.

Now let us consider the “neutron bomb.” I do not speak here of any actual or proposed weapon, but only of general principles, well known to every nuclear physicist. If heavy hydrogen could react with ...

From 1977 to 1988 China developed a neutron bomb, more formally known as an enhanced radiation weapon. Neutron bombs are specialized tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) with reduced blast effects and ...

During the Cold War, a new kind of weapon quietly emerged: the neutron bomb. Known for killing living beings while sparing buildings, it sparked massive ethical debates. This video dives into its ...

Honkai: Star Rail now has a weapon of mass destruction for players to collect. Although it sounds menacing, the item is a literal Mini Neutron Bomb. There is no end to the objects players can ...

Many Western experts [4] often assume that China designed its first atomic bomb with the same major features as the United States’s Fat Man bomb, which exploded over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, ...

By 1982, Mr. Cohen had abandoned his deployment quest. But he continued for the rest of his life to defend the bomb as practical and humane. “It’s the most sane and moral weapon ever devised ...