The United States spends vastly more on its military than any of its enemies, but that has not made us secure from the most destructive weapons on the planet: nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. In fact ...

The first hurdle Haverly identifies is the scale of the bomb required. The largest nuclear explosion was that of Tsar Bomba, detonated by the USSR in 1961: it had a yield equivalent to 50 megatons of ...

You know we're living in interesting times when "nuke the ocean floor" makes it onto the list of climate solutions. A new ...

"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 — ...

the most powerful nuclear weapon ever produced and tested. A hydrogen bomb, the explosion of Tsar Bomba in 1961 had a yield that was over 1,400 times the combined yield of the atomic bombs dropped ...

America's Heartland was hit by an earthquake, sending shockwaves through several US states. Several aftershocks were also detected within hours of the initial quake.

To put this in context, the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Soviet Tsar Bomba, was 50 megatons — just a few thousandths of a percent of that power — and yet the Bomba was reported to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Russian drone struck the destroyed nuclear power plant at Chernobyl near ...

Hruby did not specify where exactly the bombs were deployed, but according to experts, her statement reveals that the US has officially begun deploying B61-12 nuclear bombs in Europe. However ...

There are only a handful of countermeasures the Ukrainians (and their NATO allies) can deploy to stop the Russian glide bombs.

Upgraded gravity bombs are now stationed at military bases in Europe, the head of the U.S.'s nuclear military science agency has said, after it completed an overhaul of the B61-12 nuclear bomb.