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  2. Tsar Bomba - Wikipedia

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    The Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, romanized: Tsar'-bomba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. ' Tsar bomb '; code name: Ivan [5] or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.

  3. Tsar Cannon - Wikipedia

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    The Tsar Cannon (Russian: Царь-пушка, Tsar'-pushka) is a large early modern period artillery piece (known as a bombarda in Russian) on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. It is a monument of Russian artillery casting art, cast in bronze in 1586 in Moscow, by the Russian master bronze caster Andrey Chokhov .

  4. Andrei Durnovtsev - Wikipedia

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    Andrei Yegorovich Durnovtsev (Russian: Андрей Егорович Дурновцев) was a Soviet lieutenant colonel who was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union.Born in 1923, in the village of Upper Kuryaty, part of the Karatuzsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, he was a pilot of the Soviet Air Force.

  5. Russia releases secret footage of 1961 'Tsar Bomba ... - AOL

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    Developed between 1956 and 1961 as the Soviet Union engaged in a nuclear arms race with the United States, the Tsar Bomba - the King of Bombs - was the largest hydrogen bomb ever and was claimed ...

  6. Russia releases secret footage of 1961 'Tsar Bomba ... - AOL

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    The hydrogen bomb, which carried the force of 50 million tons of conventional explosives, was detonated in a test in October 1961.

  7. Novaya Zemlya - Wikipedia

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    The largest underground test in Novaya Zemlya took place on September 12, 1973, involving four nuclear devices of 4.2 megatons total yield. Although far smaller in blast power than the Tsar Bomba and other atmospheric tests, the confinement of the blasts underground led to pressures rivaling natural earthquakes.

  8. List of bombs - Wikipedia

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    Tsar Bomba: October 1961 Soviet Union: Cobalt bomb: A nuclear bomb designed to spread as much radiation around as possible Hydrogen bomb: second-generation nuclear weapon design using non-fissile depleted uranium to create a nuclear fusion reaction 1952 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam: United States: Neutron bomb

  9. Thermonuclear weapon - Wikipedia

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    The thermonuclear Tsar Bomba was the most powerful bomb ever detonated. [6] As thermonuclear weapons represent the most efficient design for weapon energy yield in weapons with yields above 50 kilotons of TNT (210 TJ), virtually all the nuclear weapons of this size deployed by the five nuclear-weapon states under the Non-Proliferation Treaty ...