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