Unveiling the World's Most Powerful Bomb: Who Holds the Title?

Unveiling the World's Most Powerful Bomb: Who Holds the Title?

Find out who has the most powerful bomb in the world. Currently, the Russian thermonuclear bomb 'Tsar Bomba' is considered to be the most powerful ever built. Read on to learn more about its history and the implications of nuclear weapons in international politics.

Many nations over the years have developed such technology that they can develop their own atomic bomb. This has always been a great threat to all people.

The former Soviet Union developed and tested the nuclear bomb known as "Tsar Bomba" in 1961, during the Cold War. It was designed to have a TNT power of 100 megatons, but it was reduced to 50 megatons in order to prevent excessive damage to the nearby soviet territory.

The test of the Tsar Bomba took place on October 30, 1961 in an isolated area of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, off the northern coast of Russia. The bomb was carried by a Tupolev Tu-95 aircraft and was dropped at an altitude of 4,000 meters. After a 13-second free fall, the bomb detonated at a height of approximately 4,000 meters, generating an explosive power of approximately 50 megatons of TNT.

With a force around 3,800 times greater than the atomic bomb that obliterated Hiroshima in 1945, the Tsar Bomba explosion set a new milestone for human history. The explosion's pressure wave could be felt more than 1,000 kilometers distant, and the bomb's debris rose to a height of roughly 64 kilometers.

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