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Most Powerful U.S. Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled

Most Powerful U.S. Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled

The last of the nation's most powerful nuclear bombs -- a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima -- is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War.

Senh: I had imagine these things to be a lot bigger than just a minivan. Apparently it's 600 times the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. What kind of impact can that do? Destroy an entire country?

 

U.S., Russia sign treaty to reduce nuclear arms

U.S., Russia sign treaty to reduce nuclear arms

Sweeping pact pledges to cut stockpile of deployed, strategic nuclear weapons and commits the old Cold War rivals to new verification procedures.

 

Obama, Medvedev to reset ties with arms pact

Obama, Medvedev to reset ties with arms pact

Russia and the United States will pursue a new deal to cut nuclear warheads, presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama said on Wednesday, making good on a pledge to rebuild relations from a post-Cold War low.

 

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