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A brief set of links to previous Tsar Bomba articles:

Cold War heroics of 'Speedlight Delta' crew recognized

Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test

Today in US military history: the biggest man-made explosion in human history

A vicious project by Andrey Sakharov before he became a Human Rights Activist (2015)

The ‘Tsar Bomba’ Was a 50-Megaton Monster Nuke

THE MYSTERY: Russia's Doomsday Bomb (2016)

A Comparison of Nuclear Explosion Effectiveness against Underground Terrorists (2001)

Nuclear Detonation Images:10-Nanosecond Long Images Taken 1 millisecond After Nuclear Explosions

What Would Happen if a Nuclear Bomb Goes Off in Your City? - Cool Interactive Map

And for the fun of it, a blast from the past with IOWAHAWK:

IOWAHAWK: From the Desk of Senator Dick (2005)

Now that FR is over 20 years old, we have a rare ability to view events from multiple points in time.

[SmokingJoe]

The point being, no country is going to survive a nuclear war, whether they started it or responded to other countries nuking them.
Hopefully, fewer crazy people like Kim will acquire nuclear weapons.
As it stands now, any two bit terrorist country like Iran with enough determination can develop their own nuclear arsenal. That is one of the reasons Elon Must is determined to make man a multi planetary spices...just in case we decide to blow ourselves to kingdom come.