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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. 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.

  4. List of nuclear weapon explosion sites - Wikipedia

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    The area on the north side of Matochin Strait, used for air and rocket tests of massive blasts. The Tsar Bomba was tested here. The name refers to the land that forms the peninsula on the north side of the west end of the strait. Kapustin Yar

  5. 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]

  6. Mityushikha Bay - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates Mityushikha Bay; Губа ... Nuclear tests were conducted in 1961 in the area of the bay, including the 58 megaton yield Tsar Bomba. Geography

  7. 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.

  8. Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll - Wikipedia

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    The device was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States. Bravo had just under one third the energy of the Soviet Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear device ever tested. However, while the Soviets intended to create such a large weapon, Castle Bravo's yield was much higher than anticipated.

  9. 1961 Soviet nuclear tests - Wikipedia

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    Map all coordinates in "1961 Soviet nuclear tests" using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... 130 Tsar Bomba (Joe 111) 30 October 1961 08:33:27.8 MSK (3 hrs)