*We just want readers to access information more quickly and easily with other multilingual content, instead of information only available in a certain language.* We will try to process as quickly as possible to protect the rights of the author. *The article has been translated based on the content of by If there is any problem regarding the content, copyright please leave a report below the article. The forty minutes of footage is intended for Russian speakers only, although English subtitles are available. 60 years after the demonstration of its lethal force, the Tsar Bomba is revealed, from its manufacture to its detonation, in a compilation of confidential Rosatom archive footage. It is therefore much superior to the American bomb, already reputed to be a thousand times superior to the murderous atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski in 1945. They thus invented the Tsar Bomba, with a power of 50 megatons or 50 million tons of TNT. After the Castle Bravo nuclear test, a 15-megaton (or million-ton) American bomb, over the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954, Nikita Khrushchev ordered Russian scientists to design the world’s largest nuclear bomb. In 1961, in the heart of the Cold War, the USSR was opposed to the United States in an arms race beyond measure. And, in ten days, more than three million people have already viewed them. Today, almost 60 years after filming them, footage of the confidential detonation of this nuclear bomb (see below) is made public by Rosatom, the Russian Atomic Energy Agency. This unprecedented explosion in the history of mankind is the consequence of an object called RDS-202 (or RDS-220 according to sources) by Russian engineers and nicknamed, since, «Tsar Bomb», by the rest of the world. As a mushroom-shaped cloud covers the sky, the underlying land landscape, about four kilometers below, is scalped. The shock of the test is such that the delivery plane is literally propelled against its will into a vertiginous fall, before the pilot raises it. The package – or rather the atomic bomb – just exploded. Then, a glowing and blinding flash but visible nearly 1000 kilometers away, a deafening detonation and a blast of biblical proportions whose effects are felt in a diameter of 250 km. Despite its weight, it seems to float in the clouds of the Arctic Ocean thanks to its huge parachute. The package is the size of a bus and weighs 24 tonnes. The Tsar Bomba footage is a reminder of what that means.October 30, 1961: early in the morning, a huge Russian bomber delivers its package in the sky, above the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The United States has deployed small scale “tactical” nuclear weapons on its nuclear subs and Russia is working on a suite of new nuclear weapons. New START, an Obama-era treaty that sets limits on the number of deployed nuclear weapons between Russia and the United States, will expire soon and it doesn’t look like it’ll be renewed. The footage is a stark reminder of the madness of the Cold War and a sober reminder that we seem to have forgotten its lessons. The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963, which required tests to move underground. It was also one of the final above ground nuclear tests. The Tsar Bomba was an impractical and devastating weapon. People in Norway and Finland reported feeling a blast that shattered windows. The mushroom cloud climbed 42 miles into the air, seven times higher than Mount Everest.
The blast was visible from 620 miles away. The shock wave of the blast was so powerful it prevented the resulting five mile wide fireball from touching the ground. It dropped in the sky, but the pilot recovered and landed the plane safely. The shock wave caught the Tu-95V even though it was 75 miles away. It exploded 4,000 meters above the ground.
The bomber dropped Tsar Bomba off the coast of Severny Island near the Arctic Ocean. The first 30 minutes of video is in Soviet propaganda style, like a newsreel describing the bomb's journey from construction to detonation.Īt 26 feet long and almost 7 feet tall, Tsar Bomba was so large that a specially designed Tu-95V Soviet bomber had some of its fuel tanks and bomb bay doors removed to accommodate it. Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, the portion of the Kremlin that deals with all things nuclear, released the video on August 20 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Russia’s nuclear industry.