The general, Igor Kirillov, had been accused of deploying “banned chemical weapons” on the battlefield by Ukraine.

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

In a sense, U.S. nuclear weapons exist not to be used. And while nuclear threats seem far away, a tool from one group brings ...

Meanwhile, Newsweek has compared how different countries' nuclear weapons compare, by using maps produced by Alex Wellerstein, a professor and historian of nuclear technology, to assess what the ...

The monster bomb that was too big to use Reports at the time said the Tsar Bomba destroyed all buildings ... and the shockwave generated by the blast travelled around the planet three times.

Russia has detained a suspect in the killing of the head of the army's chemical weapons division, investigators said Wednesday, a day after the general and his aide were killed in a brazen blast ...

The chief of Russian nuclear protection forces, Igor Kirillov has been killed in a bomb blast outside an apartment building in Moscow. Investigators say the bomb was hidden in an electric scooter ...

Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that ... So, there would be no mushroom-shaped cloud and no subsequent blast wave or mass destruction. Instead, you'd get a blinding fireball 4 ...

On November 1, 1952, the US tested Ivy Mike over the Marshall Islands. Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, making it 700 times as strong as the first ...

Tsar Bomba’s shockwave was felt more than 500 miles away from the blast while windows in buildings more than 300 miles away shattered from the shockwave. While there is no known functional unit ...

A senior Russian general in charge of the military’s nuclear and chemical weapons division has been killed in a scooter bomb ...