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October 30th 1961 – The Tsar Bomba, King of the Bombs, Царь-бомба or Big Ivan. The blast yield was equal to that of a blast of 57,000,000 Tonnes of TNT or to put that into context: The weight of 270 Empire State Buildings worth of TNT. This makes the Tsar the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated in history. Think of the destruction at Hiroshima. The Tsar was 3800 times more powerful than Hiroshima. The bomb’s weight was 27 tonnes, and its dimensions were: 8 meters (26ft) in length, and…

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