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 ...

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

Here’s What You Need to Know: A Tsar Bomba warhead would completely devastate the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area. Maj. Andrei Durnovtsev, a Soviet air force pilot and commander of a Tu-95 Bear ...

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 ...

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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