The atomic bomb: the most powerful bomb ever launched

The explosion of the bombs from Nagasaki and Hiroshima remained in history not just as a catastrophe, but as well as a proof of the atomic power. But the bomb that exploded at Nagasaki is not even far from being the most powerful atomic bomb ever launched.

In 1961, the lab group of Andrej Dmitrievič Sakharov built in The Soviet Union the bomb called the Tsar Bomb, the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever tested. The bomb was built in less than six weeks and its code name was Ivan.

On the 30th of October, in 1961, the bomb was launched over the Novaia Zemila island from the Arctic Ocean, in the bath of Mitjušicha, at north of the Polar Arctic Circle, north Russia. Although the initial force of the bomb was 100 megatons of TNT, it was limited for reducing the quantity of resulting radioactive residuum. The force of the bomb was of approximately 57 megatons of TNT, although unauthorized voices claim that the real force was between 62 and 97 megatons, meaning almost 5000 times powerful than the Nagasaki Bomb.

On the European territory, it was calculated that if the bomb would have been launched at London, it would have killed all the Londoners and it would have caused fires all the way to Oxford, meaning on a ray of 90 km from the explosion.

On the day of the explosion, although the sky was cloudy, the light caused by the explosion was seen from 1000 km away.