Nuclear explosions are terrible, so imagine how terrifying the Tsar Bomba test was back in 1961, which is deemed the biggest nuclear explosion of all time. After decades, the video has been released.

When Major Andrei Durnovstev climbed into his modified Tu-95V on the morning of October 30th, 1961, with the Tsar Bomber onboard, he knew that he and his crew only had a 50/50 chance of survival ...

Still, the Tsar Bomba did achieve one strategic objective for Moscow: shocking and surprising the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—and helped spur the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a ...

The Tsar Bomba, the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, remains an iconic and terrifying testament to the destructive power of nuclear energy. Developed by the Soviet Union during ...

After the Soviet Union tested the Tsar Bomba in 1961—the highest-yield nuclear device in history—the White House issued the following statement. “Fear is the oldest weapon in history ...

The 1963 Nuclear Ban-Test Treaty prohibited atmospheric nuclear explosions, which means we never saw a weapon as powerful as Tsar Bomba tested again. Meanwhile, nuclear weapons have gradually come ...

The Tsar Bomba remains the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, a weapon of unimaginable destruction. Designed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s, its explosive yield was 50 megatons of TNT, ...

The Tsar Bomba, roughly translated ... It was detonated just two days after Test 173, the fourth most powerful nuclear bomb explosion, over the same Novaya Zemlya testing site.

Russia just declassified footage of the moments leading up to the Tsar Bomba blast — the world's largest nuclear-bomb explosion. The blast was equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT, making it nearly ...

In 1961, Novaya Zemlya acquired the dubious honor of being the proving ground for Tsar Bomba, which weighed 60,000 pounds, measured 26 feet long and seven feet in diameter, and had a yield of 50 ...

The most powerful nuclear bomb in history went off on October 30, 1961, over the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya. Developed in part by Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, it was more than 2,000 times ...

As an example, you can use the model to estimate what would happen to the largest cities in the U.S. if a nuclear bomb as powerful as the infamous "Tsar Bomba" was detonated on them. The Tsar ...