In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a bomb so powerful that its shock waves circled the globe three times. Nicknamed Tsar Bomba, it was 3,000 times stronger than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima ...
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The Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Tsar Bomba Still Haunts Us
The Cold War saw the creation of some truly wild and destructive weapons systems. While the United States and the Soviet ...
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, Soviet Air ...
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