At that moment, our aircraft emerged from between two cloud layers and down below in the gap a huge bright orange ball was emerging. The sea of light spread under the hatch and even clouds began to glow and became transparent. One of the cameramen who captured the devastation from the top revealed what it felt like, “The clouds beneath the aircraft and in the distance were lit up by the powerful flash. Radio comms were disrupted and non-functional for over an hour. Surprisingly, since the fireball never made contact with the Earth, the amount of radiation was surprisingly low. The scientists also estimated that even though there were no human casualties in this test, the blast would have been capable of causing third-degree burns up to a hundred kilometres away from the epicentre. Moreover, buildings over 160 kilometres away were damaged beyond repair. A village called Severny, roughly 55 kilometres from the epicentre of the detonation was completely destroyed. The flash of its explosion was seen over a thousand kilometres away from the detonation site. the 57-megaton bomb formed mushroom clouds that went as high as 64 kilometres, with the dome stretching nearly 100 kilometres. The bomb exploded while it was in the air (without making contact with the ground) - roughly 60 kilometres high, however, this didn’t limit the devastation that it was designed to cause.Įven though the bomb was detonated mid-air, the devastation it caused was catastrophic, to say the least. The bomb was dropped at 11:32 AM Moscow time over the Mityushikha Bay test site over the deserted island of Novaya Zemlya. The aircraft was piloted by one Andrey Durnovtsev and the aircraft was accompanied by an observer plane that captured the bomb being dropped and the eventual detonation. It was equipped with a parachute to allow the bomb to drop slowly, giving the aircraft pilots enough time to fly off to a safe distance. To test the devastation of this monstrosity, scientists modified a Tu-95V bomber to carry the weapon.
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Nuclear Weapon Archive The Tsar nuclear bomb test The end result was a bomb that weighed roughly 27 tons and was roughly 8 metres in length, with a diameter of two metres. The researchers also worked on a novel fusion process that drastically reduced the fallout.
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However, since the devastation caused by the bomb would have resulted in being too dangerous, for the test, they reduced the capacity to 50 megaton which was roughly 1500 times (3,000 times if it would have been at its full capacity) more powerful than the bombs that the US dropped in Japan nearly a decade earlier. The Tsar Bomba was a three-staged bomb with a 100 megaton capacity. The bomb was supposed to be a statement, a power-demonstration to showcase what the Soviet Union was capable of. Tsar Bomba was developed under the guidance of Andrey Sakharov and a team of Soviet physicists under him, during the Cold War period between the U.S.S.R and the United States of America that was showing no signs of taming down. The explosion was termed as the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded. The bomb was a hydrogen nuclear bomb that came into the limelight right after its test detonation that occurred over Novra Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961.
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Tsar Bomba, as the name suggests, was called the ‘King of Bombs (in Russian), although it had a code name of RDS-220 and was also referred to as Big Ivan. Sakharov turned against his own creation.
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