Tsar Bomba (AN602)

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The most powerful explosive device ever detonated: a Soviet three-stage thermonuclear bomb dropped over Novaya Zemlya on 30 October 1961 with a yield of about 50 Mt. Designed for some 100 Mt, it was tested with lead in place of a uranium tamper, halving the yield and limiting fallout.

The bomb, 8 m long and weighing 27 tonnes, was carried by a specially modified Tu-95V and burst about 4 km above the Sukhoy Nos range. The fireball was some 8 km wide and the mushroom cloud rose to about 67 km. Far too heavy to be a practical weapon, it remained a single demonstration of power in a tense year of the Cold War. Its designers included Andrei Sakharov, Viktor Adamsky, Yuri Babayev, Yuri Smirnov and Yuri Trutnev.

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المصادر

1. Soviet Nuclear Test Summary, Nuclear Weapon Archive (Carey Sublette)
2. The Soviet Weapons Program: The Tsar Bomba, Nuclear Weapon Archive (Carey Sublette)
3. Tsar Bomba, Wikipedia