And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons. So what would happen if we detonated that above the United ...

Iran has the right to peaceful atomic energy and is acting in line with international law, the Kremlin said on Friday as the ...

Early on September 22, 1979, satellites picked up an exceedingly bright double flash in the South Atlantic that has never ...

including the thermobaric bomb, which produces a blast that is "second only to a nuclear bomb", said news.com. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The ...

The Tsar Bomba, as the test was ultimately known, had a yield between 50 and 58 megatons, twice the size of the second largest nuclear blast. A bomb of this size would create a fireball 6.4 square ...

Also during 1942, the Manhattan District of the Corps of Engineers was formed to construct three secret "cities" for major portions of atomic bomb development. At Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a nuclear ...

The drills come as the head of a Kremlin-backed nuclear research centre called ... to have drawn comparisons with the testing of the Tsar Bomba in 1961. He argued that test "forced the United ...