The neutron bomb offered Schlesinger what he wanted. He remained the Secretary of Defense after Nixon’s resignation and, in 1975, the Ford administration authorized development of the weapon ...

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 ...

The neutron bomb was Cohen’s solution to a dilemma. He wanted to develop a battlefield weapon that would not be as totally or lastingly destructive of civilians and infrastructure as the atom ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Samuel Cohen, the father of the controversial tactical nuclear weapon known as the neutron bomb, which was designed to kill people and other living things but inflict minimal ...

I mentioned the neutron bomb would operate as a kind of death ray. It would do next to no physical damage and result in no contamination, but it would immediately destroy all life in the target area.