![]() The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics, in Snezhinsk. As only one bomb was built to completion, that capability has never been demonstrated. In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Mt (418 PJ) if it had included the uranium-238 fusion tamper which featured in the design but was omitted in the test to reduce radioactive fallout. As they had the instrumental data and access to the test site, their yield figure has been accepted as more accurate. The bhangmeter results and other data suggested the bomb yielded around 58 Mt (243 PJ), which was the accepted yield in technical literature until 1991, when Soviet scientists revealed that their instruments indicated a yield of 50 Mt (209 PJ). reconnaissance aircraft named "Speed Light Alpha" monitored the blast, coming close enough to have its antiradiation paint scorched. The detonation was monitored by United States intelligence agencies, via a KC-135A aircraft (Operation SpeedLight) in the area at the time. The bomb was dropped by parachute from a Tu-95V aircraft, and detonated autonomously 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) above the cape Sukhoy Nos of Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mityushikha Bay, north of the Matochkin Strait. Tested on 30 October 1961, the test verified new design principles for high-yield thermonuclear charges, allowing, as its final report put it, the design of a nuclear device "of practically unlimited power". The project was ordered by Nikita Khrushchev in July 1961 as part of the Soviet resumption of nuclear testing after the Test Ban Moratorium, with the detonation timed to coincide with the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov oversaw the project at Arzamas-16, while the main work of design was by Sakharov, Viktor Adamsky, Yuri Babayev, Yuri Smirnov, and Yuri Trutnev. ![]() The Tsar Bomba ( Russian: Царь-бо́мба) ( code name: Ivan or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. ![]() Despite the enormous power of the Tsar, the bomb was completely useless for military purposes (too much mass, easy to destroy) and only fulfilled a psychological and propaganda role.73☄8′26″N 54★8′54″E / 73.80722°N 54.98167☎ / 73.80722 54.98167 For comparison - the distance between Gdańsk and Kraków in a straight line is approx. The atomic mushroom formed during the detonation was about 60 kilometers high and about 30-40 kilometers in diameter, and was visible from a distance of about 900 kilometers. The detonation took place in the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya. The Tu-95 bomber was selected as the carrier of this powerful weapon, and it was specially adapted to its transport. Originally, the conversion power of the Tsar bomb was supposed to be 100 megatons, but later - for safety reasons - it was reduced to 50-58 Mt. They accelerated significantly around 1960. Such outstanding scientists and engineers as Yulia Charatin or Andrei Sakharov were involved in it. Work on AN602 started from the late 1940s. It was the most powerful detonated nuclear nuclear bomb in history to date. AN602 or RDS-220 (colloquial name: Tsar bomb) was a Soviet 50-58 Megaton (Mt.) thermonuclear bomb detonated on October 30, 1961.
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