Even its size was monstrous. It was 26 feet long, about seven feet in diameter and weighed more than 60,000 pounds — so large it couldn’t even fit inside of the bomb bay of the modified Bear bomber ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Still, the Tsar Bomba achieved what it was designed for: to shock and to awe both the United States and NATO allies. We will most likely never see anything that big ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has released previously classified footage of the world's largest nuclear explosion, caused when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomba almost 60 years ago. 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 ...
What followed after the bomber released its deadly cargo changed nuclear history forever. From a fireball that nearly touched ...
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