The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

Nine countries in the world possess nuclear weapons, and only Israel has never admitted to conducting a nuclear test. Besides ...

Russian president instructs officials to draft proposals on potential nuclear weapons testing at Security Council meeting in ...

The Tsar Bomba was built to be a pure act of intimidation—a spectacular, non-military show of force to prove Soviet nuclear parity with the US. Its original, terrifying design was for a 100-megaton ...

Trump’s nuclear push, Russia’s new weapons and China’s expanding stockpile have reignited fears of a global arms race ...

From 1955 onwards, the colossal B52 Stratofortress became the primary long-range heavy bomber of the US Air Force, and as the ...

The largest nuclear explosion in history, the Soviet’s dementedly destructive 1961 Tsar Bomba test, was almost entirely an ...

Again and again, the Russian president’s campaign of nuclear intimidation against Europe and NATO rings hollow.

It's a storytelling competition for students and you might have seen some of them on BTN before. Joe and Sas went along to ...

President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to resume nuclear testing for the first time since a moratorium was declared in 1993.

On October 30, 2025, US President Donald Trump announced that he had instructed the Department of War to begin nuclear weapons testing because “other countries are doing the same,” without specifying ...

President Trump’s post raises technical questions about how and if the United States could “immediately” return to nuclear ...