The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...
"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...
Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of ... leaving in its place a 164-foot-deep crater. The explosion's mushroom cloud traveled 30 miles up into earth's atmosphere.
In a way, they have effectively developed an incredibly small hydrogen bomb ... resulting in a mushroom cloud and a ...