But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on Earth - the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba - King of Bombs - detonated in 1961 in the height of the nuclear arms race.
The 50-megaton Soviet AN602—more often referred to as "Tsar Bomba," or the "king of bombs"—was responsible for the largest ...
Novaya Zemlya is notorious for its role as a Soviet nuclear test site in the Cold War. The Tsar Bomba - the most powerful ...
And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons. So what would happen if we detonated that above the United ...
Grand Duke Kirill was a cousin of Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, who was killed by a revolutionary firing squad with his wife and five children in 1918. The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for more ...
In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man, answerable only to God, who rules more than 170 million people. The Tsar's armies have grown ...
The majority of the population were satisfied with the arrangements and were supporters of the Tsar. The introduction of Russification resulted in widespread discontent. This led to the ...
The EU’s new competitiveness tsar Teresa Ribera believes avoiding a trade war is as important as developing Europe’s car industry, as Brussels weighs up whether to slap punitive tariffs on ...
Putin portrays the war in Ukraine as part of a centuries-old battle with a declining West. "God save the Tsar!" was one of the first public birthday wishes for President Vladimir Putin who turns ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin was hailed a 'tsar' on his 72nd birthday on Monday by some supporters who said the former KGB spy had raised Russia up from its knees and would deliver ...
They ran the country as autocrats. This meant that the Tsar, and only the Tsar, governed Russia: Tsars believed that they had a divine right to rule Russia, their position and power had been given ...
(Reuters) - "God save the Tsar!" was one of the first public birthday wishes for President Vladimir Putin who turns 72 on Monday and who has been Russia's paramount leader for nearly quarter of a ...