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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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