What the records say
- When
- 30 Oct 1961
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 73.54° N, 54.71° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Tsar Bomba.
Summary
Nuclear weapons testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58-megaton yield hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, over Novaya Zemlya (it remains the largest ever man-made explosion).
Tsar Bomba
Most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested
The Tsar Bomba is the most powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. A project of the Soviet Union, it was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, tested on 30 October 1961 at the Novaya Zemlya site in the country's far north. The bomb yielded the equivalent of 50 megatons of TNT.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Wasserstoffbombe Zar wird in Nowaja Semlja gezündet”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “explosion au-dessus de l’archipel arctique soviétique de Nouvelle-Zemble de Tsar Bomba, la bombe nucléaire la plus puissante jamais mise au point par l’homme”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “СССР провёл испытание ядерного устройства мощностью 50 мегатонн”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Nueva Zembla, al norte de Siberia en el mar de Barents, la Unión Soviética detona la Bomba del Zar, de 50 000 kilotones”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “苏联制造的氢弹沙皇炸弹在北冰洋新地岛试爆，成为人类史上威力最大的一颗炸弹。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “史上最大規模の水爆ツァーリ・ボンバの爆発実験。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page