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The world’s biggest nuclear bomb is taken to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and then it begins

Today we’re dropping a big bomb into the deepest part of the ocean. So grab a surfboard and get ready to hang ten on the ...
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Before the atomic bomb, the biggest man-made explosion in history leveled a city in 1917 — because two ships bumped into each other

On the morning of December 6, 1917, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was going about its business as a busy wartime port. The First World War was raging in Europe, and Halifax’s harbor was one of the ...