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  2. Tsar Bomba - Wikipedia

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    The Tsar Bomba is the single most physically powerful device ever deployed on Earth, the most powerful nuclear bomb tested and the largest human-made explosion in history. [64] For comparison, the largest weapon ever produced by the US, the now-decommissioned B41 , had a predicted maximum yield of 25 Mt (100 PJ).

  3. List of nuclear weapon explosion sites - Wikipedia

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    The location for a series of PNEs exploring the use of salt domes for storage of natural gas, name Galit (Halite or rock salt). Karagandy, Kazakhstan 50°31′39″N 68°19′17″E  /  50.52747°N 68.3214°E  / 50.52747; 68.3214  ( Karagandy, Kazakhstan

  4. Olenya air base - Wikipedia

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    The Tu-95V aircraft carrying the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, took off from the airbase on October 30th, 1961. After a training flight on 22 January 2019, a Tu-22M3 broke up upon making a hard landing in inclement weather at the airbase. Two of the four crew members died in the crash, and a third died on his way ...

  5. Mityushikha Bay - Wikipedia

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    Location. Location: Far North: Coordinates ... Nuclear tests were conducted in 1961 in the area of the bay, including Tsar Bomba. Geography

  6. Matochkin Strait - Wikipedia

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    The Tsar Bomba was detonated in October 1961, in the vicinity of Matochkin Strait, over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. [2]It is also the site where, from 1963 to 1990, about 39 underground nuclear tests took place in a vast array of tunnels and shafts under Mount Lazarev and other massifs.

  7. Novaya Zemlya - Wikipedia

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    Novaya Zemlya was one of the two major nuclear test sites managed by the USSR along with the Semipalatinsk Test Site; it was used for air drops and underground testing of the largest of Soviet nuclear bombs, in particular the October 30, 1961, air burst explosion of Tsar Bomba, the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.

  8. Severny Island - Wikipedia

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    The village was located 55 kilometres (34 miles) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range. Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon detonated and was the most powerful anthropogenic explosion in human history. It had a yield of 50 megatons of TNT, scaled down from its maximum 100 megaton design yield. [8]

  9. Soviet atomic bomb project - Wikipedia

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    The Tsar Bomba (Царь-бомба) was the largest, most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever detonated. It was a three-stage hydrogen bomb with a yield of about 50 megatons . [ 50 ] This is equivalent to ten times the amount of all the explosives used in World War II combined. [ 51 ]