The Tsar Bomba’s test was conducted over Severny Island in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. Once detonated, the resulting explosion was truly the stuff of nightmares. With its awe-inspiring and ...

The monster bomb that was too big to use Reports at the time said the Tsar Bomba destroyed all buildings within 55km (35 miles) of the test site at Sukhoy Nos in the Arctic Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that ... That was Starfish Prime — the highest-altitude nuclear test in history. In 1962, the US government launched a 1.4 megaton bomb from ...

The simulation for Russia's Tsar Bomba also showed the heavy blast damage radius, where heavily built concrete buildings would be damaged or demolished and deaths would reach 100 percent.

No test of its magnitude was ever attempted by ... larger and more alarming weapons from being built. Video of the Tsar Bomba detonation can be found here, as part of an episode of The History ...