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 ...

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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 ...

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 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. H-bombs are still very much a ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Soviet Union would no longer pursue massive nuclear devices like the Tsar Bomba after observing the results, even though they had the technology to create a ...

Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in 1918.Credit: Alamy/File Hasegawa paints a convincing portrait of Nicholas as not only uninterested but way out of his depth as regards ...

There’s an easy fix. The Commission needs to appoint a Trump tsar. Better yet: a Tsarina. As it happens, the most competent European commissioner in recent memory – Denmark’s Margrethe ...