Russia detonates "vacuum bomb"

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Russia this week tested what the Kremlin describes as the world's most powerful, non-nuclear bomb, the so called "vacuum bomb". Russian state television referred to it as the "father of all bombs" and claimed it is four times more powerful than a similar US weapon.

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Austria Radio's Riem Higazi asked defence expert Major Charles Heymann, editor of Jane's World Armies, to explain the new Russian bomb.