From 1955 onwards, the colossal B52 Stratofortress became the primary long-range heavy bomber of the US Air Force, and as the ...
Herman Kahn’s ponderous shocker, On Thermonuclear War, frequently mentions a weapon whose purpose is to end all human life: the Doomsday Machine. Kahn discusses its political uses as calmly as if it ...
The old Soviet Union built a vast array of nuclear weapons during the Cold War but wanted to build far more nukes and bigger weapons. Moscow at one point wanted a massive 100 megaton nuclear bomb. We ...
In Christopher Nolan's latest epic movie Oppenheimer, we see Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called "father of the atom bomb," struggling with the moral questions raised by his world-shaking invention. It ...
In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a bomb so powerful that its shock waves circled the globe three times. Nicknamed Tsar Bomba, it was 3,000 times stronger than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima ...