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 ...
Feedback is intrigued (and terrified) by a new paper that suggests you could set off a ridiculously gigantic nuclear bomb ...
Novaya Zemlya was the site of the October 30, 1961 explosion of Tsar Bomba, the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. The testing activities were a sensitive military area during ...
On November 1, 1952, the US tested Ivy Mike over the Marshall Islands. Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, making it 700 times as strong as the first ...
The video shows both the initial assembly of the enormous bomb, over six feet in diameter... Here’s What You Need To Remember: Some toys are best left in their boxes. On July 10, 1961 Soviet ...
The explosion's mushroom cloud traveled 30 miles ... The flash of light from the blast was visible up to 620 miles away. The Tsar Bomba, as the test was ultimately known, had a yield between ...
The first hurdle Haverly identifies is the scale of the bomb required. The largest nuclear explosion was that of Tsar Bomba, detonated by the USSR in 1961: it had a yield equivalent to 50 megatons ...