BOMBS

The little-known story of how close to nuclear destruction the world really was during those dark October days and how the heroism of one man saved us all

See archival images, stills from reenactments, and images of individuals featured in The World’s Biggest Bomb.

Richard Rhodes Richard Rhodes is an American journalist and historian is the author or editor of twenty-three books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award; Dark Sun: ...

Beginning in the 1950s, American and Soviet scientists embarked on a perilous race to see who could build and detonate the world’s largest bomb. The results exceeded all expectations about how big a bomb could be built. Initially, the Americans led the way, but then ...