This Soviet test was the largest thermonuclear bomb ever tested, and the largest manmade explosion in history. The fireball was 5 miles wide and could be seen 620 miles away. The mushroom cloud ...

On November 1, 1952, the US tested Ivy Mike over the Marshall Islands. Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, almost 700 times stronger than the bombs used ...

But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on Earth - the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba - King of Bombs - detonated in 1961 in the height of the nuclear arms race.

The Imperial Japanese Navy's Yamato – along with her sister ship Musashi – was the largest ... explosion at 14:23, the battleship was hit by at least 11 torpedoes and 6 bombs.

The Navy bomb team were called to destroy the unexploded ... it was found and placed in a nearby field where a controlled explosion was carried out. An Isle of Wight resident discovered the ...

The Tzar Bomba was one of the most fearsome devices ever built ... made nuclear explosion could be. Its yield of 50 megatons, or 5,000 kilotons, was equal to 3,800 of the bombs dropped on ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WKRC) - Prosecutors said the FBI found over 150 pipe bombs in a residence, calling the find the largest seizure of explosives in the bureau's history. Brad Spafford was arrested ...

The FBI said it believes it’s the largest amount of homemade ... effect of the device upon its explosion.’ it quotes an FBI analysis of one bomb. “The lab concluded that the device was ...