Sixty years ago, almost to the day, the Soviet Union detonated a 50-megaton nuclear bomb, the largest discharged ever before or since, vastly dwarfing Hiroshima and, based on careful analysis and guesswork, capable of increasing to 100 megatons. The purpose of the bomb was not to be used but to demonstrate that the Soviet Union […]
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