On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. At 50 megatons, it was the most powerful human-made explosion in history—so massive it shattered windows over 500 ...

Sometimes, a melody is worth 1,000 words — or, in the case of a theater review, about 800. To really get a feel for the tone of “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” the latest addition to Hershey Felder’s ...

Why the Soviets built such a massive bomb to begin with, and how it became one of the cleanest nuclear bombs ever detonated, why the inventor of the largest nuclear bomb received a peace prize from ...

A “commissioner for future generations” needs to be appointed in Ireland and to act as “a sustainability tsar” in protecting the long-term interests of citizens, according to a coalition of more than ...

A bomba Tsar, detonada em 1961 pela União Soviética, é até hoje o maior artefato nuclear já testado, com 50 megatons — 3.300 vezes mais potente que a de Hiroshima. Mas mesmo essa força colossal ...

When particle physicist and University of Oxford professor emeritus Frank Close learned he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2023, his treatment included three weeks of radiotherapy, giving him a fresh ...

Humanity has a long history of developing ever more formidable weapons. Centuries ago, bows and slings were our deadliest weapons for unleashing damage at a distance. Today, we've advanced through a ...

EXCLUSIVE: The British television executive hired to clean up bullying and poor working conditions in the industry has had her role scaled back after she was the subject of multiple misconduct ...

We all know that climate change is dangerous, which means it can be tempting to take drastic measures to tackle it. Such as building a nuclear bomb orders of magnitude bigger than any to date and ...

Tsar Bomba was a three-stage device, involving the fusion of hydrogen isotopes. A modified Tu-95 bomber codenamed “Bear” dropped it from the air. On the day the iconic bomb was dropped, Soviet Air ...

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 ...

Donald Trump's comments over the danger of a nuclear war in which a single bomb could destroy both New York and South Carolina raised eyebrows on social media, with many casting doubts on the accuracy ...