Why the Soviets built such a massive bomb to begin with, and how it became one of the cleanest nuclear bombs ever detonated, why the inventor of the largest nuclear bomb received a peace prize from ...

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

Instead, for its one and only test in 1961, Soviet scientists "downrated" the Tsar Bomba to around 50 megatons by swapping out uranium for lead in at least one of the bomb's stages.

Although the Tsar Bomba is recognized as the most devastating nuclear bomb ever tested, a number of other Soviet bombs developed around the same time also eclipsed anything the U.S. ever detonated ...

Tsar Bomba: Russia’s Insane 50-Megaton Monster Nuke Could Have Killed Millions Maj. Andrei Durnovtsev, a Soviet air force pilot and commander of a Tu-95 Bear bomber, holds a dubious honor in the ...

Developed between 1956 and 1961 as the Soviet Union engaged in a nuclear arms race with the United States, the Tsar Bomba - the King of Bombs - was the largest hydrogen bomb ever and was claimed ...

After the Soviet Union tested the Tsar Bomba in 1961—the highest-yield nuclear device in history—the White House issued the following statement. “Fear is the oldest weapon in history.

By far the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, the nuke would have been enough to devastate the Soviet Union's enemies. In a simulation run on Nukemap, for instance, detonating it right ...

In any given 24-hour period, there are on average 16,338,222 people in the light (1 psi) blast range of the simulated detonation of Russia's Tsar Bomba (the largest USSR bomb ever tested, yielding ...

The simulation also features the largest North Korean bomb, a U.S. warhead and Tsar Bomba, the largest bomb detonated by the Soviet Union in the Cold War.