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In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba, a nuclear weapon with a yield of 50 megatons. The explosion was ...

The most dominant team in MLB signed the best free agent on the market on Thursday. And with that, what had been a sleepy offseason is now under the shadow of a mushroom cloud.

Harry Truman knew little about the plans to use atomic weapons when he took office. By that time there was little he could ...

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