The explosion wasn’t designed for battlefield use. It was designed to be seen, measured, and feared. Scientists ...

In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built. With a yield of 50 ...

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear device ever created. The "Tsar Bomba," as it became known, was 10 times more powerful than all the munitions used during World War II.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Soviet Union would no longer pursue massive nuclear devices like the Tsar Bomba after observing the results, even though they had the technology to create a nuke ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Soviet Union would no longer pursue massive nuclear devices like the Tsar Bomba after observing the results, even though they had the technology to create a nuke ...

Russia has officially declassified 1961 footage of the biggest nuclear blast in history — a test of the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, better known as Tsar Bomba. The video, a 40 minute documentary uploaded ...

The world of nuclear weapons is a very diverse one in terms of power and range. Like everything else we humans do, one of them does however sit at the top of the food chain: the Tsar Bomba. By far the ...

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 ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Imagine if we detonated a nuclear bomb in space? Actually, you don't have to. You can see it for yourself. That was Starfish Prime — the ...