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 ...

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 ...