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 ...

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.

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 ...

It’s been 80 years since a nuclear bomb was last used in war, but these weapons continue to haunt us due to their frightening ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. As fears over the potential threat of nuclear warfare continue to escalate, the Mirror takes a ...

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 times the strength of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.

In 1961, Russia detonated the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuke in history, over a remote Arctic island. New footage has been declassified and shared on YouTube.

The device will be used by Moscow's military to equip its troops to handle a ground-based nuclear explosion. ... model of a Soviet AN-602 thermonuclear aerial bomb, also known as the Tsar Bomb, ...

At number one is the Tsar Bomba (also known as AN602), the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and detonated. This monstrous device was built by the Soviet Union and tested in 1961.