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To: wendy1946
By Tsar Bomba do you mean that gigantic thing the Russians blew off around 1955 the same year we had the two giant hurricanes Hazel and Diane?

Nope. Tsar Bomba is considered the largest air blast every exploded. It was detonated on October 30, 1961 (probably in celebration of the past August's birth of the messiah Obomba somewhere in Kenya) on the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya. It was 55 to 66 Megatons.

59 posted on 03/21/2009 8:04:17 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker
"Tsar Bomba" would be bad grammer for Russians unless the Russian who coined the term simply didn't care about grammer. More likely would be "Tsar Bomb" ( Царь Бомб ) or emperor of all bombs; Bomba is feminine in Russian, you take the trailing 'a' off for genitive plural... Russians actually stay aware of stuff like that after they're grown up and out of school....
66 posted on 03/22/2009 6:35:39 AM PDT by wendy1946
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