Here’s What You Need to Remember: Still, the Tsar Bomba achieved what it was designed ... fireball would touch the ground and scorch a huge crater. So great was the shockwave from the blast ...

Foremost among those "super" weapons was Product Code 202 (in Russian: Izdeliye 202), better known by its later Western nickname, "Tsar Bomba." Designed as a 100-megaton bomb, Tsar Bomba was ...

Soviet engineers had assumed that the fireball would touch the ground and scorch a huge crater. So great was ... Real Estate Limitations As a weapon, the Tsar Bomba was never practical.

Tsar Bomba Was the Largest Hydrogen Bomb Detonated in History, and It Helped End the Cold War. The titanic 27-ton mega-nuke’s explosion was so massive scientists still disagree about its actual ...

The explosion left a crater 6,500 feet (2,000 m) in diameter and 250 feet (76 m) in depth. This would be about 300 million tons of displaced dirt. A 100 megaton bomb would be a modification of the ...

It also holds the world record for the largest, strongest nuclear bomb ever detonated with the Tsar Bomba. Developed and detonated during the height of the Cold War, this colossal Soviet ...

The Russian Tsar Bomba test was carried out off the coast of Severny Island, near the Arctic Ocean, in 1961 and created an explosion equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT. A mock-up of a the Tsar Bomba ...

The eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga that triggered a tsunami earlier this year released more energy than the Tsar Bomba - the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, according to a ...

The Soviet 'Tsar Bomba', detonated on 30 October 1961, was the largest nuclear weapon ever constructed, with the power of about 3,800 Hiroshima bombs. The test, which took place over Novaya Zemlya ...