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.

Still, the Tsar Bomba did achieve one strategic objective for Moscow: shocking and surprising the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—and helped spur the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a ...

Still, the Tsar Bomba did achieve one strategic objective for Moscow: shocking and surprising the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—and helped spur the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a ...

More importantly, it provides never-before-seen shots of the actual Tsar Bomba explosion, which had an estimated yield of around 50 megatons, or 50 million tons of TNT, in exquisite detail ...

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 ...

The most powerful weapon in the US nuclear arsenal is the B83 nuclear bomb. Developed in the late 1970s and in use since 1983 ...

The world of nuclear weapons is a very diverse one in terms of power and range. Like everything else we humans do, one of them does however sit at the top of the food chain: the Tsar Bomba.

A 3D rendering of large nuclear-bomb test explosion. Maps simulating the explosion of a 360 kilotons nuclear bomb in Moscow and St. Petersburg show devastating consequences for the two Russian cities.