Largest Nuclear Explosion Ever
The Tsar Bomba ("Tsar Bomb") is the Western name for the
RDS-220, which was the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon
ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a
yield of about 50 megatons of TNT and it was codenamed Ivan by
its developers.
The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, in Novaya Zemlya, an
archipelago in the Arctic Sea. The device was scaled down from
its original design of 100 megatons to reduce the resulting
nuclear fallout.
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