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 ...

Tsar Bomba nuclear test was the biggest ever: Since Russia first invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago, President Vladimir Putin and other Kremlin officials have routinely threatened nuclear escalation ...

Humans have yet to develop a more powerful and devastating weapon than the nuclear bomb. The largest bombs are capable of not only razing entire cities to the ground but also releasing extreme levels ...

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear device ever created. The "Tsar Bomba," as it became known, was 10 times more powerful than all the munitions used during World War II.

The detonation of the first nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 is seared into our collective memory, and the world has been haunted by the prospect of a devastating nuclear ...

The most powerful nuclear bomb in history went off on October 30, 1961, over the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya. Developed in part by Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, it was more than 2,000 times as ...

A new study offers insights into how the United States reacted to Tsar Bomba, a planet shaker that made the deadly Hiroshima blast look tame. By William J. Broad Sixty years ago on Saturday, the ...

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