The Tsar Bomba was the largest thermonuclear weapon ever ... but had the Tsar Bomba been tested at its maximum theoretical yield of 100 megatons, ... In terms of the radius of destruction, ...

Ars Technica: We must not allow a Tsar Bomba gap! Alex Wellerstein : Exactly. The parody of Edward Teller is that he's a person who liked big bombs for the sake of it.

The Tsar Bomba was a glimpse of how enormous a human-made nuclear explosion could be. Its yield of 50 megatons, or 50,000 kilotons, was equal to 3,800 of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima, or to 50 ...

However, the Soviet Union developed three AN602 physics packages at 101.5 megatons (Mt) and these are more powerful than the Tsar Bomba, which was downscaled to 51 Mt before being used RDS-220 Vanya.

Russia's nuclear energy agency has released never-before-seen footage of the test of the Tsar Bomba nuclear bomb in 1961, which produced the largest man-man explosion in history.

A NEWLY declassified video shows the world’s most powerful nuclear bomb exploding – giving off a blast 3,000 times stronger than Hiroshima. The Russian Tsar Bomba test was carried out o… ...

A newly-declassified video shows the testing of the Tsar Bomba, a nuclear weapon built by the former Soviet Union. The bomb was built in the midst of the Cold War, and only one was ever constructed.

This means the Tsar Bomba, also known as Ivan would completely decimate the city of New York, but it wouldn’t stop there. The blast would have nearly 4 million casualties across 4 different states .

This means the Tsar Bomba, also known as Ivan would completely decimate the city of New York, but it wouldn’t stop there. The blast would have nearly 4 million casualties across 4 different states .

When Tsar Bomba was dropped, the fireball had a 5-mile diameter that reached over 6 miles into the sky. From 62 miles away, the heat could still give you third degree burns. Windows were broken ...

This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series On this day 60 years ago, the biggest bomb in history was detonated over an island in the Russian Arctic Sea. The Soviet 'Tsar Bomba', detonated on ...