It created a fireball more than 8 kilometers wide, and the heat from the explosion ... nuclear weapons ever tested. The second irony is that despite its fearsome destructive power, the Tsar Bomba ...

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The Tsar Bomba, roughly translated as "Emperor ... It was detonated just two days after Test 173, the fourth most powerful nuclear bomb explosion, over the same Novaya Zemlya testing site.

The explosion was so powerful that it ... that the world hardly needs another Tsar Bomba in order to wreak devastating nuclear damage. Originally published on Live Science. Brandon is the space ...

The Tsar Bomba wasn’t just a bomb—it was a message. In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever built, unleashing a 50-megaton explosion that was 3,000 times more ...

The explosion would kill over 6.3 million people and injure over 3.9 million others. A 50-megaton "Tsar Bomba" nuclear bomb explosion is shown over New York City and surrounding areas in this ...

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

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Tsar Bomba has the power of 50 megatons of TNT, and its test was conducted on October 30, 1961, which was the largest nuclear explosion in world history. The atomic bomb that America dropped on ...

Using a nuclear explosion yield of 81 gigatons, scientists can sequester 30 years' worth of carbon dioxide emissions, the ...