The U.S. dropped the 'Mother of All Bombs,' the largest nonnuclear bomb it has ever used, on an ISIS target in Afghanistan Thursday. WSJ's Shelby Holliday explains how the GBU-43 got its nickname.

These “blasts” weren’t all rhetorical. In 2017, Trump deployed the mighty GBU-43/B “Massive Ordnance Air Blast” (MOAB) bombs against the growing ISIS-K branch of the infamous Islamist ...

But it remains unclear if weapons of this type, and even the thermobaric father of all bombs, were used during the Chechen war.

This refers to the powerful thermobaric bomb ODAB-9000, called the "father of all bombs". The missile was allegedly dropped on Vovchansk. Kyiv warns that such false information could be part of an ...