Largest Nuclear Bomb
On 30 October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba nuclear bomb over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in northern Russia. To this day, this is the largest nuclear weapon detonated.
After the explosion, the surface of the island was leveled, and the rocks melted. Some reports indicate that windows were broken in northern Finland and Norway too. Amid concerns about radioactive fallout, in 1963 the US, UK and USSR signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty forcing all nuclear tests to be underground.
It was built in only 15 weeks The shockwave of the explosion travelled the Earth three times The mushroom cloud that formed had a diameter of around 40 km
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