In 1952, the United States detonated the first full-scale thermonuclear bomb, unleashing an explosion unlike anything the world had ever seen. The blast released more than 10 megatons of energy, ...
In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba, a hydrogen bomb with a 50-megaton yield—the largest explosion ever created by humans. The blast was about 3,800 times stronger than Hiroshima and ...