YouTuber Zack D. Films has created a shocking simulation that details exactly what would happen if the biggest nuclear bomb ...

On August 20, 1953, the Soviet press announced that the USSR had tested a hydrogen bomb. Eight days prior in Kazakhstan, the explosive device “Joe-4” put to the Soviet developed “layer cake ...

On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over ...

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 Force Major Andrei Durnovtsev ...

At the Twentieth Party Congress in February 1956, two months after the successful test of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Khrushchev formally broke with Stalin's revolutionary tenet that a new world war ...

and the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb who later campaigned against nuclear weapons. Authorities denied him the right to leave the country to receive the peace prize. Fifty years on ...