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 ...

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, ...

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Historical context The largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated was “Tsar Bomba,” tested by the Soviet Union in 1961. It had an explosive yield equivalent to 50 megatons of TNT.

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However, there is a key difference between atomic weapons and thermonuclear weapons, such as the H-Bomb, because the latter uses nuclear fusion in addition to fission reactions.