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The Most Powerful Bomb Ever Constructed

Written by Alan Bellows

On 30 October 1961, over the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Sea, Soviet scientists detonated the most powerful...

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The Farewell Dossier

Written by Alan Bellows

In 1982, operatives from the USSR's Committee for State Security--known internationally as the KGB--celebrated the pr...

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