Vladimir Putin has opened the door to Russia detonating nuclear bombs in his gravest threat of World War Three yet. If ...

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The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

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The results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted ...

The Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov made it clear that the test site on the Arctic archipelago can be ready at short ...

President Putin has said Russia could carry out its first controlled explosions of nuclear weapons since the collapse of the ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

Russia has tested a Burevestnik intercontinental cruise missile on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, Reuters reported, citing ...

President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to resume nuclear testing for the first time since a moratorium was declared in 1993.

On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali, 32, knocked out George Foreman, 25, in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout known as ...

Explore October 30 history including Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast, Tsar Bomba test, Mussolini's rise, and the first canned ...