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There are no released photos or video of this explosion. On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever tested and created the biggest man-made explosion in history.

There are no released photos or video of this explosion. On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever tested and created the biggest man-made explosion in history.

But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on Earth - the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba - King of Bombs - detonated in 1961 in the height of the nuclear arms race.

The United States maintains one of the most sophisticated and varied nuclear arsenals in the world, with weapons designed for ...

And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons. So what would happen if we detonated that above the United ...

Should a weapon of similar proportions to the "Castle Bravo", the largest nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States, be detonated in Los Angeles, the damage, would be extreme. The weapon had a ...

Novaya Zemlya was the site of the October 30, 1961 explosion of Tsar Bomba, the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. The testing activities were a sensitive military area during ...

On this day 80 years ago, Staffordshire was hit by the largest ever non-nuclear explosion on British soil - claiming the lives of at least 70 people. To this day there remains a crater stretching ...