The Hydrogen Bomb.

Nothing instills terror quite like the sheer magnitude of annihilation at the hands of atomic weapons of mass destruction. Then there's the horrors of fallout, black rain and radiation, that causes mutations deep within the bone marrow. We tested the effects but still proceeded to build arsenals.

Despite disasters such as those in Chernobyl and Fukashima, there are nearly 450 reactors actively providing nuclear power today.

660m below the New Mexico waste isolation pilot plant in the Nevada desert, lies the transuranic leftovers from making 2,150 American weapons, below the yucca mountains