In late October 1961, a Soviet plane dropped Tsar Bomba, the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated. Now, for the first time, footage of the massive explosion is available for the public to view, ...

The mushroom cloud of Russia’s biggest nuke was 8 times the height of Mt. Everest. This infographic will give you a visceral feel for that that means. It was called the Tsar Bomba, but the Russians ...

The Tsar Bomba mushroom cloud. Photo: Fair use Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Just after midday on October 30, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big Ivan, better known as Tsar Bomba, was 57 Megatons of Soviet might. That’s 1,400 times Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined and ten times the entire combined fire power expended in WWII. In one bomb.

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 ...

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.

In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a nuclear bomb so powerful that it would have been too big to use in war. And it had far-reaching effects of a very different kind. APOCALYPSE WEEK The fear and the ...

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