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Russia's most powerful nuke would 'vaporize' all five New York boroughs if dropped on Times Square, terrifying map shows
With global fears mounting, the threat of nuclear weapons has never felt so high. So what would the effect of one of the ...
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The Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Tsar Bomba Still Haunts Us
Tsar Bomba was a three-stage device, 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 ...
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Detonating the most powerful nuclear bomb in space
And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons. So what would happen if we detonated that above the United ...
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The first atomic bomb is detonated
Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos In 1932, James Chadwick discovered the neutron, a small atomic particle with mass but no charge.