In the early hours of October 30, 1961, a bomber took off from an airstrip in northern Russia and began its flight through cloudy skies over the frigid Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya. Slung …

The B83 is a variable-yield thermonuclear gravity bomb developed by the United States in the late 1970s that entered service in 1983. With a maximum yield of 1.2 megatonnes of TNT (5.0 PJ), …

2021年10月29日 · The impressively unwieldly-looking Big Test Vehicle (BTV). Just a monster of an ugly bomb casing design, optimized for perfectly fitting into a B-52’s bomb bay. Photo is …

2011年10月29日 · Right now, the U.S. is dismantling about 250 warheads a year at the Pantex nuclear plant in Amarillo, Texas. The process is much slower than it used to be, says Bruce …

2021年10月29日 · By the spring of 1951, Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam at Los Alamos had developed their design for a workable hydrogen bomb. The idea was superficially simple: Use …

The Soviet Tsar Bomb, dropped in 1961 and with a yield of around 50 megatons (backed down from the design yield of 100 megatons) is acknowledged as the biggest bomb ever tested. But …

Blue Danube was the first operational British nuclear weapon. It also went by a variety of other names, including Smallboy, the Mk.1 Atom Bomb, Special Bomb and OR.1001, a reference to …

2023年3月13日 · 'We have a safe airport.' No threat found after massive police response Sunday at BTV. All 65 passengers on United Airlines flight 3613 were reported safe

As previously mentioned, the story of Flashback is starting to come out. This article by Alex Wellerstein in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is mostly about the Soviet Tsar bomb, but …

2023年3月12日 · If there was, in the eyes of the authorities, a credible bomb threat, that plane would have been evacuated immediately at a remote part of the airport. They would not send …