In the narrows of Halifax Harbor, a series of small seamanship errors cascaded into the largest man-made explosion the world had ever seen. This is the story of two ships, a burning deck of benzene ...
On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. At 50 megatons, it was the most powerful human-made explosion in history—so massive it shattered windows over 500 ...