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Foremost among those "super" weapons was Product Code 202 (in Russian: Izdeliye 202), better known by its later Western nickname, "Tsar Bomba." Designed as a 100-megaton bomb, Tsar Bomba was ...
The Tsar Bomba is the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, as no other bomb as strong has ever been tested. While there were no deaths from the Tsar Bomba's test, there were windows ...
A newly-declassified video shows the testing of the Tsar Bomba, a nuclear weapon built by the former Soviet Union. The bomb was built in the midst of the Cold War, and only one was ever constructed.
Dubbed "Tsar Bomba" (loosely translated, "Emperor of Bombs"), it was the size of a small school bus—it wouldn't even fit inside a bomber and had to be slung below the belly of the plane.
On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear device ever created. The "Tsar Bomba," as it became known, was 10 times more powerful than all the munitions used during World War II.
A Russian nuclear energy agency released formerly classified footage of the Soviet Union’s 1961 Tsar Bomba test. By William J. Broad Hydrogen bombs — the world’s deadliest weapons — have ...
The eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga that triggered a tsunami earlier this year released more energy than the Tsar Bomba - the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, according to a ...
A new study offers insights into how the United States reacted to Tsar Bomba, a planet shaker that made the deadly Hiroshima blast look tame. By William J. Broad Sixty years ago on Saturday ...
Kurzgesagt framed this hypothetical scenario with two exercises in superlatives: the Marianas Trench and the Soviet thermonuclear bomb Tsar Bomba. The Marianas Trench, located off the coast of the ...
The Tsar Bomba mushroom cloud. Photo: Fair use Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Just after midday on October ...