Why the Soviets built such a massive bomb to begin with, and how it became one of the cleanest nuclear bombs ever detonated, ...
The Tsar Bomba remains the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Tested by the Soviet Union on October 30, 1961, this ...
Wellerstein quotes Edward Teller, a main architect of the hydrogen bomb, as announcing at a 1954 meeting of the Atomic Energy Commission that his laboratory was working on two superbomb designs. One ...