Novaya Zemlya is notorious for its role as a Soviet nuclear test site in the Cold War. The Tsar Bomba - the most powerful ...

Narrator: Imagine if we detonated a nuclear bomb ... site, that would last for days. Now, let's be clear. This will probably never happen. Super-thermonuclear devices like the Tsar Bomba no ...

The flash of light from the blast was visible up to 620 miles away. The Tsar Bomba, as the test was ultimately known, had a yield between 50 and 58 megatons, twice the size of the second largest ...

On July 13, 1945, at a site called Trinity 100 km northwest of Alamogordo, a plutonium bomb was assembled and brought to the top of a tower. The test was postponed by thunderstorms. On July 16 ...