Tsar Bomba’s resulting destruction was significant. Today, there remains a lasting scar on the area where it was detonated. Radiation spread across a vast distance as well. Soviet weapons ...

Early reports indicate a yield of potentially up to 100 megatons. To put this in perspective: Russia’s Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuke ever detonated, with an estimated blast yield of roughly 50 ...

Tsar Bomba was a three-stage device, involving the fusion of hydrogen isotopes. A modified Tu-95 bomber codenamed “Bear” dropped it from the air. On the day the iconic bomb was dropped ...

But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on Earth - the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba - King of Bombs - detonated in 1961 in the height of the nuclear arms race.

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 ...

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 50 and 58 megatons, twice the size of the second largest ...