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We will bury you - How the Soviet Union detonated the largest bomb in history

In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built. With a yield of 50 ...

The US military set off its largest nuclear explosion in testing 69 years ago, but scientists had no idea the blast would be that big

The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
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Here’s how big our nuclear arsenal is 80 years after the first atomic bomb

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.