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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Tsar Bomba was dropped above the Soviet territory ... an explosion produces bubbles of very hot gas. In the case of a nuclear explosion, the bomb emits X-rays, ionizing and heating the surrounding ...

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.

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 ...