On October 30, 1961, a specially equipped Soviet Tu-95 bomber flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a remote chain of islands in the Arctic Ocean that the …
Tsar Bomba: The Most Powerful Nuclear Weapon Ever Built
It's gone down in history with the nickname of Tsar Bomba – the Russian way of calling it the emperor of bombs. And that name was no exaggeration. Learn about Tsar Bomba and more explosive history.
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