Estimated yield: 15 megatons of TNT Location: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands Date: March 1, 1954 Details: The largest nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States. A thermonuclear weapon ...

the United States sent an even bigger bomb, nicknamed the “Fat Man”, toward the city of Kokura, home to one of the biggest weapons arsenals in Japan, after the initial target city of Kyoto had ...

In Christopher Nolan's latest epic movie Oppenheimer, we see Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called "father of the atom bomb," struggling ... human-made explosion ever recorded. Ironically, it may ...

It seems increasingly certain, then, that even if no other nuclear bombs are ever detonated, the damage caused by the biggest bombs of the '50s and '60s will continue to affect the environment ...

They had exploded the largest bomb ever. Last week, in a press conference that managed to combine intense satisfaction over atomic progress with an earnest effort to quiet public misgivings on the ...