Federal officials and agencies that work closely on the nuclear weapons arsenal agree: The threat of nuclear conflict is rising and, with it, the risk of an attack on the U.S. In a sense, U.S ...

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 ...

1912: The Aswan Low Dam begins operating on the River Nile. On the same day, the Indian Revolutionary Underground attempt to assassinate Viceroy of India Lord Hardinge, by throwing a homemade bomb ...

Here stands a Tsar, at 25 years and one day, who has ascended to the title of the longest serving Russian leader, only after ...

The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was Tsar Bomba, a 50-megaton device detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961. That made it “3,300 times as powerful” as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — an almost ...

It is just this concept that formed the core of the aforementioned “Tsar Bomba” (a three-stage bomb) and America’s own Castle BRAVO (a two-stage device) detonated in 1954. Castle BRAVO also ...

Moscow's Tsar Bomb, the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever created - unveiled during the first ... [+] Russian-American Cold War. President Putin has been reviving the Kremlin's nuclear ...

RUSSIA AFFAIRS - In a rare interview with Western media since the start of the current war in Ukraine, Mikhail Piotrovsky ...