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What is the name given to the most powerful thermonuclear device?
What is the name given to the most powerful thermonuclear device so far tested, which was detonated by the Soviet military over the remote Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961 and was so powerful that shockwaves from the bomb circled the earth three times?
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- Country BoyLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, literally "Emperor-bomb") is the Western name for the largest, most powerful nuclear explosive ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the ~50 megaton bomb was codenamed Ivan (Russian: Иван) by its developers.
The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961 in Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Arctic Sea. The device was scaled down from its original design of 100 megatons to minimize nuclear fallout.
Due to its enormous size, the bomb was not practical for warfare purposes, and was created primarily for propaganda use in the intense rivalry of the Cold War. There is no evidence that any other bomb of similar power was ever made.
- Anonymous2 decades ago
Hydrogen Bomb
- RjmailLv 52 decades ago
The "Tsar Bomba"
Source(s): http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.h... http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/o...
