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The name Tsar Bomba (loosely translated as Emperor of Bombs) comes from an allusion to two other Russian historical artifacts, the Tsar Cannon and the Tsar Bell, both of which were created as showpieces but whose large size made them impractical for use. The name "Tsar Bomba" does not seem to have been used for the weapon prior to the 1990s. [8]
Tsar Bomba device 50,000 210,000 USSR, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, yield of 50 megatonnes, (50 million tonnes of TNT). In its "final" form (i.e. with a depleted uranium tamper instead of one made of lead) it would have been 100 megatonnes. All nuclear testing as of 1996 510,300 2,135,000 Total energy expended during all nuclear ...
TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.The ton of TNT is a unit of energy defined by convention to be 4.184 gigajoules (1 gigacalorie), [1] which is the approximate energy released in the detonation of a metric ton (1,000 kilograms) of TNT.
Worldwide nuclear test with a yield of 1.4 Mt TNT equivalent and more Date (GMT) Yield (megatons) Deployment Country Test site Name or number October 30, 1961: 50: parachute air drop: Soviet Union: Novaya Zemlya: Tsar Bomba, Test #130 December 24, 1962: 24.2: missile warhead: Soviet Union: Novaya Zemlya: Test #219: August 5, 1962: 21.1: air ...
The energy released from the explosion has been estimated to be equal to about 200 megatonnes of TNT (840 petajoules), [11] roughly four times as powerful as the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever detonated. This makes it one of the most powerful explosions in recorded history.
The thermonuclear Tsar Bomba was the most powerful bomb ever detonated. [6] As thermonuclear weapons represent the most efficient design for weapon energy yield in weapons with yields above 50 kilotons of TNT (210 TJ), virtually all the nuclear weapons of this size deployed by the five nuclear-weapon states under the Non-Proliferation Treaty ...
A steel plant in Siberia owned by London-listed Evraz supplied 5,000 metric tons of toluene – an ingredient for TNT - to the Biysk Oleum Plant, according to the rail data. Evraz was sanctioned ...
Its explosion yielded energy equivalent to 10.4 megatons of TNT—over 450 times the power of the bomb dropped onto Nagasaki— and obliterated Elugelab, leaving an underwater crater 6240 ft (1.9 km) wide and 164 ft (50 m) deep where the island had once been.