It’s been a long time since early humans rubbed two sticks together and made fire. Today, we have ways to blow up entire ...

There are no released photos or video of this explosion. On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever tested and created the biggest man-made explosion in history.

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 United States maintains one of the most sophisticated and varied nuclear arsenals in the world, with weapons designed for ...

Should a weapon of similar proportions to the "Castle Bravo", the largest nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States, be detonated in Los Angeles, the damage, would be extreme. The weapon had a ...

And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons. So what would happen if we detonated that above the United ...

The Halifax explosion on December 6, 1917 wiped out six square kilometres of the city. It was the largest manmade explosion the world had known. (National Archives of Canada) Ships carrying ...