Friday, April 08, 2016

Most powerful explosion ever


Tsar Bomba was the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of about 50 megatons of TNT. The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961 in Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Arctic Sea. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 60 km high (nearly seven times higher than Mount Everest) and 30–40 km wide. Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage up to 1,000 km away.

Source: Wikipedia

1 comment:

Ken said...

Nice blog and great vid but that blast in the vid is RDS 37. The first successful full scale h-bomb by the USSR. yield appx 1.7 megatons, whereas the tsars yield was 50 megatons.