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To: blam

Most powerful h-bomb in Pacific history? I don’t think they’re quite to 15 megatons (operation castle).


12 posted on 11/30/2017 3:09:42 PM PST by DrGunsforHands
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From WIKI:

Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба; "Tsar-bomb", or "King of bombs") was the Western nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan or Vanya), the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its test on 30 October 1961 remains the most powerful man-made explosion in history. It was also referred to as Kuzkina mat (Russian: Кузькина мать; "Kuzma's mother"), possibly referring to First secretary Nikita Khrushchev's promise to show the United States a Kuzkina mat (an idiom roughly translating to "We'll show you!") at a 1960 session of United Nations General Assembly.

The bomb had a yield of 50 megaton TNT (210 PJ). In theory, it had a maximum yield of 100 megatons if it were to have included a U-238 tamper, but because only one bomb was built, this was never demonstrated. The single bomb was detonated at the Sukhoy Nos cape of Severny Island, part of Novaya Zemlya.

19 posted on 11/30/2017 3:34:47 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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