the USSR detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever tested and created the biggest man-made explosion in history. The blast, 3,000 times stronger than the bomb used on Hiroshima, broke windows 560 ...

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Now, astronomers have detected what they believe is the largest explosion ever observed by humans, and it took place in a cluster of galaxies nearly 400 million light-years away. The record ...

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 ...

It also reported on concerns being raised by locals over the possible economic and ecological fallout from the explosion. Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers in the world, ranking in the ...

To put the size of history's largest nuclear blasts to scale, we have used Alex Wellerstein's Nukemap. In the maps, the first ring of the blast is the fireball, followed by the radiation radius.