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 ...

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.

The blast that devastated large parts of Beirut in August was one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history, experts say. The Sheffield University, UK, team says a best estimate for the ...