In 1952, the United States detonated the first full-scale thermonuclear bomb, unleashing an explosion unlike anything the ...
It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burst—caused by the collapse of a black hole—that was so ...
On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. At 50 megatons, it was the most powerful ...