But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on Earth - the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba - King of Bombs - detonated in 1961 in the height of the nuclear arms race.

Tsar Bomba was a three-stage device, involving the fusion of hydrogen isotopes. A modified Tu-95 bomber codenamed “Bear” dropped it from the air. On the day the iconic bomb was dropped ...

And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons. So what would happen if we detonated that above the United ...

The head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical forces was blown up Tuesday by a bomb-rigged scooter — the highest-ranking Russian official killed in more than 2 1/2 years of war.

A bomb of the its yield had little practical applicability ... larger and more alarming weapons from being built. Video of the Tsar Bomba detonation can be found here, as part of an episode ...