The Tsar Bomba wasn’t just a bomb—it was a message. In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever built ...

Nuclear explosions are terrible, so imagine how terrifying the Tsar Bomba test was back in 1961, which is deemed the biggest nuclear explosion of all time. After decades, the video has been released.

The Tsar Bomba was a glimpse of how enormous a human-made nuclear explosion could be. Its yield of 50 megatons, or 50,000 kilotons, was equal to 3,800 of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima, or to 50 ...

Diplomatic fallout following the explosion was significant, especially from the United States and Scandinavian countries near the blast. Ultimately, it didn’t matter—the Tsar Bomba was much ...

Diplomatic fallout following the explosion was significant, especially from the United States and Scandinavian countries near the blast. Ultimately, it didn’t matter—the Tsar Bomba was much ...

The film details the long march of the Tsar Bomba — the informal name given to the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb by Western observers of the Soviet Union — from its transport by steam train to Olenya ...

The infamous Tsar Bomba ignited what is still the most powerful man-made explosion ever seen, with 3,300 times more energy than the nuclear bomb that fell on Hiroshima. 12 ...

The 50-megaton Tsar Bomba “far surpassed the largest explosion the United States has ever conducted -- a 15-megaton ‘Castle Bravo’ hydrogen bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll in 1954,” the ...

Big Ivan, better known as Tsar Bomba, was 57 Megatons of Soviet might. That’s 1,400 times Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined and ten times the entire combined fire power expended in WWII. In one ...

Visitors look at a model of a Soviet AN-602 thermonuclear aerial bomb, also known as the Tsar Bomb, while visiting the Atom Pavilion at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNH) in Moscow on ...