The Tsar Bomba is widely regarded as the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union in the midst of the nuclear arms race with the United States, the ...

In Christopher Nolan's latest epic movie Oppenheimer, we see Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called "father of the atom bomb," struggling with the moral questions raised by his world-shaking invention. It ...

A Russian state corporation has released previously-classified footage documenting the development and detonation of the legendary ‘Tsar Bomba’ hydrogen bomb in celebration of 75 years of Russia’s ...

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On a clear day, an airburst at 14,000 feet above ground level would produce a nuclear fireball two miles wide that would be hotter than the surface of the sun, reducing concrete and steel skyscrapers ...

For most of the world, Andrei Sakharov, who was born 100 years ago this week, is remembered as a fearless and tireless champion of human rights and freedoms in the Soviet Union. It was for his work as ...

Key point: The Cold War’s nuclear arms race was truly absurd. Maj. Andrei Durnovtsev, a Soviet air force pilot and commander of a Tu-95 Bear bomber, holds a dubious honor in the history of the Cold ...

The most powerful nuclear bomb in history went off on October 30, 1961, over the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya. Developed in part by Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, it was more than 2,000 times as ...

Nuclear explosions for nuclear power plants and atomic weapons of mass destruction are among the terrifying events to have happened in the history of men. Unfortunately, there have been several ...

Russia's Rosatom, the country's state-owned nuclear corporation, released a new rare and clear footage of Tsar Bomba's 1961 test detonation, the world's most powerful atomic bomb. The published video ...