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The Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, romanized: Tsar'-bomba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. ' Tsar bomb '; code name: Ivan [5] or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.
He was appointed Lead nuclear weapons test pilot, in charge of dropping the Tsar Bomba as part of the Nuclear weapons testing program of the Soviet Union. [1] The test took place on October 30, 1961 At Cape Sukhoi Nos, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mityushikha Bay, north of Matochkin Strait, at 11:33 am.
The second Soviet nuclear test site, specializing in the very large air dropped tests, including the largest ever, Tsar Bomba. A: Chyornaya Guba (Black Bay) 70°59′N 53°42′E / 70.99°N 53.7°E / 70.99; 53.7 ( A: Chyornaya Guba (Black
The Tsar Bomba far surpassed the largest explosion the United States has ever conducted - a 15-megaton "Castle Bravo" hydrogen bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll in 1954. (Reporting by Maria Vasilyeva ...
A series of nuclear surface tests were carried out by the Soviet Union in the early- to mid-1960s. On 30 October 1961, a modified Tu-95 carried and dropped the AN602 device named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful thermonuclear device ever detonated. [22] Video footage of that particular test exists [23] since the event was filmed for documentation ...
RDS-37, November 22, 1955: first Soviet multi-megaton, true hydrogen bomb test using Andrei Sakharov's third idea, essentially a re-invention of the Teller-Ulam. Tsar Bomba, October 30, 1961: largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, with a design yield of 100 Mt, de-rated to 50 Mt for the test drop.
The village was located 55 kilometres (34 miles) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range. Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon detonated and was the most powerful anthropogenic explosion in human history. It had a yield of 50 megatons of TNT, scaled down from its maximum 100 megaton design yield. [8]
The device was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States. Bravo had just under one third the energy of the Soviet Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear device ever tested. However, while the Soviets intended to create such a large weapon, Castle Bravo's yield was much higher than anticipated.