The Final Act In A No-Act Play That Confirms Why The Play Happened In The First Place

For those paying attention at home this may come as a total surprise–a shock to the system—that Syria has nuclear material in the form of yellow cake somewhat laying around like so much garage storage that must be dispositioned to safeguard the remains of their-ahem-Barney Rubbled peaceful nuclear reactor site.

The Day the Soviets Built the King of Boom

In October of 1961 the Cold War was already a tense, paranoid chess match played with nuclear weapons instead of pawns. The United States and the Soviet Union were staring each other down across oceans, missile silos, and enough megatonnage to turn the planet into a glowing charcoal briquette. But Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev decided the world needed a reminder of just how big the Soviet hammer could be. So the Kremlin did what any superpower with a bruised ego might do. They built the largest nuclear bomb in human history and lit it off over the Arctic.