Who's your 'daddy'?

"Rushkin said the new bomb would allow the military to "protect the nation's security and confront international terrorism in any situation and in any region."

I'm not sure how a 44-ton equivalent bomb is supposed to "confront international terrorism" so much. The MOAB hasn't exactly been shown to be a very useful weapon, which is why it generally isn't used and the military hasn't built anything more powerful. When you're attacking impromptu fortified positions, lightly armed irregular troops, and suicide attackers working in small groups all hiding among civilian populations, you want a precise attack. You want a weapon - be it a bomb or whatever - which precisely targets your enemy while mitigating the damage to the surrounding area. It sounds like this is more of a "my bomb's bigger than yours" than anything else.

Then again, this is a country which destroyed Grozny twice chasing after Chechen rebels and did flood a theater with gas to break up a terrorist hostage situation, killing more hostages than terrorists.

Russia tests 'dad of all bombs'
CNN

MOSCOW, Russia - The Russian military has successfully tested what it describes as the world's most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb, Russia's state television reported Tuesday.

It was the latest show of Russia's military muscle amid chilly relations with the United States.

"The tests have shown that the new air-delivered ordinance is comparable to a nuclear weapon in its efficiency and capability," said Col-Gen. Alexander Rushkin, a deputy chief of the Russian military's General Staff, said the televised remarks.

Unlike a nuclear weapon, the bomb doesn't hurt the environment, he added.

The statement reflected the Kremlin's efforts to restore Russia's global clout and rebuild the nation's military might while the ties with Washington have been strained over the U.S. criticism of Russia's backsliding on democracy, Moscow's vociferous protests of U.S. missile defense plans, and riffs over global crises.