The Cold War saw the creation of some truly wild and destructive weapons systems. While the United States and the Soviet ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world of nuclear weapons is a very diverse one in terms of power and range. Like everything else we humans do, one of them does however sit at the top of the food chain: the Tsar Bomba. By far the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has released previously classified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 years ago. The ...

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Tsar Bomba was a three-stage device, involving the fusion of hydrogen isotopes. A modified Tu-95 bomber codenamed “Bear” dropped it from the air. On the day the iconic bomb was dropped, Soviet Air ...