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To: kingu
Those old turboprops are still flying? Pretty amazing.

Even more amazing is that it was one of those TU-95 Bears that dropped the largest Soviet nuclear device (actually the largest nuclear device ever exploded) in 1961 (this month as a matter of fact) in the Arctic Sea, 50 megaton yield, the device was dubbed 'Tsar Bomba', i.e. "The Emperor of Bombs":
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7 posted on 10/02/2006 1:25:58 AM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: mkjessup

No, this bomb was called 'Kuskina Mat', and was tested at half of its power because of apprehension that deiterium in environment can burn.


10 posted on 10/02/2006 5:07:26 AM PDT by Sergei_DV
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