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.

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 ...

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 ...