The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961. Codenamed ‘Ivan’ by its creators, it was tested over Novaya Zemlya, a remote Arctic archipelago.

With New Mexico being the birthplace of the atomic bomb, it only makes sense that our state’s national labs are also responsible for monitoring other potential nuclear tests anywhere on the planet. And as Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs bring a decades-long chapter of deterrence to a close,

Russia has tested a Burevestnik intercontinental cruise missile on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, Reuters reported, citing Norwegian intelligence chief Vice Admiral Nils Andreas Stensønes.