65 years ago today, the Soviet Union tested the Tsar Bomba - the most powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. It yielded the equivalent of 50 megatons of TNT.

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 8 days ago

65 years ago today, the Soviet Union tested the Tsar Bomba - the most powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. It yielded the equivalent of 50 megatons of TNT.

njm1314@lemmy.world · 8 days ago

I’m trying to remember the exact details, but if I recall they actually used some kind of shielding in the core or something that made it less powerful than it could have been.

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 8 days ago

In theory, the bomb would have had a yield over 100 Mt (418 PJ) if it had included the natural ^[1] uranium tamper^[2] which featured in the design but was replaced with lead^[3] in the test to reduce radioactive fallout.

65 years ago today, the Soviet Union tested the Tsar Bomba - the most powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. It yielded the equivalent of 50 megatons of TNT.

65 years ago today, the Soviet Union tested the Tsar Bomba - the most powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. It yielded the equivalent of 50 megatons of TNT.

Tsar Bomba - Wikipedia