"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 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 ...

Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words ... for opposing the development of a hydrogen bomb. Oppenheimer pressed for international ...

I, Donald John Trump, will drop an atomic bomb on you, Canada, unless you reduce the price of automatic transmissions for use in our great American automobiles immediately.

I, Donald John Trump, will drop an atomic bomb on you, Canada ... get on the horn to them and we can talk turkey before the mushroom cloud. Because I can tell you who I’m not talking to ...

That blast, 5,000 times as powerful as the Hiroshima nuclear bomb explosion ... After the explosion, a gigantic mushroom cloud of hot ash rose many thousands of meters into the stratosphere.

President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for cuts in atomic weapons arsenals with Russia and other nuclear powers.