On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear weapon so powerful that its shockwave traveled around the Earth ...
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How North Korea got the nuclear bomb

North Korea’s interest in nuclear weapons was decades in the making—but its first earnest attempt during the 1990s was ...
Eventually, they concluded it was Gilju County, an area in North Korea's northernmost province. What Seoul's equipment was ...
2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of ...
Putin’s new ramped-up threats to target European democracies with his arsenal of nuclear super-bombs could foreshadow an ...
Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates eight nuclear-explosion scenes in movies such as "Oppenheimer" (2023) and Marvel's "The Avengers" (2012).
US media reports military considering plans to use GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) ...
Key points of this installment After the bombing, unused photographic materials (35mm film, X-ray film, and photographic ...
In 1939, scientists realized a terrifying possibility. If they could harness nuclear chain reactions, they might create a bomb far exceeding the power of conventional weapons. A letter signed by ...