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, the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, remains an iconic and terrifying testament to the destructive power of nuclear energy. Developed by the Soviet Union ...

Russia's state-owned nuclear power company, Los Atom, has released on YouTube a documentary video of the largest hydrogen bomb in the human race history, the Tsar Bomba, which was also called ...

It had a yield of 50-megatons that was five times larger than America’s biggest thermonuclear bomb in those days. Tsar Bomba weighed 60,000 pounds and it was 26-feet long.

This undertaking required a bespoke approach, as none of the existing bomb casings in the Soviet arsenal could contain the intricate electronics and massive main charge envisioned for the Tsar Bomba.

The Tsar Bomba was the largest thermonuclear weapon ever exploded, and it earned that title in spades. But there were some unforeseen aftereffects.

Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba, Russian for 'King of Bombs', in a test over Novaya Zemlya island in Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961. It produced most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded.

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Russia's nuclear threat to Ukraine and NATO brings to the fore what is known as the Tsar Bomba, a weapon of mass destruction that is 3,800 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb that hit ...