The Tsar Bomba exploded with a destructive power equivalent to more than 1500 times that of the weapons dropped over Japan in 1945. It created a fireball more than 8 kilometers wide, ...

The Tsar Bomba was the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated. Credit: Rosatom Ars Technica: The propaganda value seems to be why the Soviets developed Tsar Bomba—that, and deterrence.

The Tsar Bomba, the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, remains an iconic and terrifying testament to the destructive power of nuclear energy. Developed by the Soviet Union during ...

The Tsar Bomba remains the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, a weapon of unimaginable destruction. Designed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s, its explosive yield was 50 megatons of TNT, ...

Tsar Bomba was so enormous, 8m (26ft) long with a diameter of almost 2.6m (7ft) and weighing an unbelievable 54,000 pounds, that it dwarfed America’s largest nuke, the puny 9-megaton B53 air ...

However, the Soviet Union developed three AN602 physics packages at 101.5 megatons (Mt) and these are more powerful than the Tsar Bomba, which was downscaled to 51 Mt before being used RDS-220 Vanya.

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 ...

Tsar Bomba still couldn’t fit inside and had to be carried under the aircraft. A modified Tupelov Tu-95 drops Tsar Bomba, trailed by its massive parachute, ...

The "Tsar Bomba," as it became known, was 10 times more powerful than all the munitions used during World War II. On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear device ever created.

This bomb blew the United States out of the water. Its yield was five times that of the B53 at 50 megatons. This means the Tsar Bomba, also known as Ivan would completely decimate the city of New ...

The Tsar Bomba was so big, it’s doubtful whether it could ever have been a practical weapon delivered by a Soviet bomber. Because of the distance from the Soviet Union to America, ...