A Weapon Beyond Imagination In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a bomb so powerful that its shock waves circled ...

There is currently a lot of talk about nuclear war as conflict escalates between the United States and its NATO allies with Russia over its ongoing war in Ukraine. The Russia-Ukraine war has raged on ...

Later, his 10-year-old grandson gave him a fulsome account of the Tsar Bomba – the 50-megaton nuclear weapon tested by the Soviet Union in 1961, and, to date, the most powerful human-made explosion.