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 world's largest and the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested is Tsar Bomba, officially known as "product 602" or "AN602 ...

Tsar Bomba nuclear test was the biggest ever ... Then, the energy produced from the explosion is directed to compress the thermonuclear third stage. Initially, Soviet engineers wanted the Tsar ...

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 ...

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The flash of Tsar Bomba's detonation was seen as far as 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) away. The massive nuclear explosion leveled Severny, an uninhabited village 34 miles (55 kilometers ...

Russian scientists have produced a simulator that mimics a ground-based nuclear ... explosion," according to TASS's report. Visitors look at a model of a Soviet AN-602 thermonuclear aerial bomb ...