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The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago
vaporland writes "Tsar Bomba is the Western name for the RDS-220, the largest, most powerful weapon ever detonated. The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, in an archipelago in the Arctic Sea. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of about 50 megatons. Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds of its detonation. The device was scaled down from its original design of 100 megatons to reduce the resulting nuclear fallout. The Tsar Bomba qualifies as the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity."
no you stupid nob head, a device must be DEVISED by someone. hence the sun is not a device. better pay more attention next time
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
If you've gotta use weapons, make them conventional or there won't be much of a world left to argue over...yaknow?
But what if you were some place like Israel and just interested in nuking your neighbors and not the entire world? We've not experimented with the idea of purposely setting off nukes entirely around a country to prevent invasion or immigration.