It was called the Tsar Bomba, but the Russians nicknamed it the Kuz’kina Mat–or what roughly translates to the “We’ll Show You.” This 50,000-kiloton hydrogen bomb was the largest detonated nuke ever, ...

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. At 50 megatons, it was the most powerful human-made explosion in history—so massive it shattered windows over 500 ...

The Tsar Bomba mushroom cloud. Photo: Fair use Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Just after midday on October 30, ...

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. Throughout the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The video is an incredible piece of documentary footage. The video shows both the initial assembly of the enormous bomb, over six feet in diameter and about 60,000 ...

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union conducted an atmospheric test of the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba (Russian for “Bomb King”) nuclear weapon over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The ...

Nuclear explosions for nuclear power plants and atomic weapons of mass destruction are among the terrifying events to have happened in the history of men. Unfortunately, there have been several ...

A newly-declassified video shows the testing of the Tsar Bomba, a nuclear weapon built by the former Soviet Union. The bomb was built in the midst of the Cold War, and only one was ever constructed.

Big Ivan, better known as Tsar Bomba, was 57 Megatons of Soviet might. That’s 1,400 times Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined and ten times the entire combined fire power expended in WWII. In one bomb.

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