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

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 ...

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 ...

But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on Earth - the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba - King of Bombs - detonated in 1961 in the height of the nuclear arms race.

The head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical forces was blown up Tuesday by a bomb-rigged scooter — the highest-ranking Russian official killed in more than 2 1/2 years of war.

The blast, 3,000 times as strong as the bomb used on Hiroshima, broke windows 560 miles away, according to Slate. The flash of light from the blast was visible up to 620 miles away. The Tsar Bomba ...

A bomb of the its yield had little practical applicability ... larger and more alarming weapons from being built. Video of the Tsar Bomba detonation can be found here, as part of an episode ...

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 ...