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.

When Major Andrei Durnovstev climbed into his modified Tu-95V on the morning of October 30th, 1961, with the Tsar Bomber onboard, he knew that he and his crew only had a 50/50 chance of survival ...

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 ...

The 1963 Nuclear Ban-Test Treaty prohibited atmospheric nuclear explosions, which means we never saw a weapon as powerful as Tsar Bomba tested again. Meanwhile, nuclear weapons have gradually come ...

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 ...

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 Tsar Bomba, roughly translated ... It was detonated just two days after Test 173, the fourth most powerful nuclear bomb explosion, over the same Novaya Zemlya testing site.

Russia just declassified footage of the moments leading up to the Tsar Bomba blast — the world's largest nuclear-bomb explosion. The blast was equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT, making it nearly ...

In 1961, Novaya Zemlya acquired the dubious honor of being the proving ground for Tsar Bomba, which weighed 60,000 pounds, measured 26 feet long and seven feet in diameter, and had a yield of 50 ...

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

As an example, you can use the model to estimate what would happen to the largest cities in the U.S. if a nuclear bomb as powerful as the infamous "Tsar Bomba" was detonated on them. The Tsar ...

The device will be used by Moscow's military to equip its troops to handle a ground-based nuclear explosion. ... model of a Soviet AN-602 thermonuclear aerial bomb, also known as the Tsar Bomb, ...