The Tsar Bomba exploded with a destructive power equivalent to more than 1500 times that of the weapons dropped over Japan in 1945. It created a fireball more than 8 kilometers wide, ...

The Tsar Bomba remains the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, a weapon of unimaginable destruction. Designed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s, its explosive yield was 50 megatons of TNT, ...

The Tsar Bomba wasn’t just a bomb—it was a message. In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever built, unleashing a 50-megaton explosion that was 3,000 times more ...

The Tsar Bomba mushroom cloud. Photo: Fair use Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Just after midday on October ...

Russia's nuclear energy agency has released never-before-seen footage of the test of the Tsar Bomba nuclear bomb in 1961, which produced the largest man-man explosion in history.

A newly-declassified video shows the testing of the Tsar Bomba, a nuclear weapon built by the former Soviet Union. The bomb was built in the midst of the Cold War, and only one was ever constructed.

The so-called “Tsar Bomba” was exploded above the Arctic Circle in October 1961. The footage was classified for decades, but the bomb test was hardly a secret.