On July 31, 1954, it was decided to build a nuclear test site on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic. Novaya Zemlya was the site of the October 30, 1961 explosion of Tsar Bomba ...

The Tsar Bomba’s test was conducted over Severny Island in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. Once detonated, the resulting explosion was truly the stuff of nightmares. With its awe-inspiring and ...

Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that ... That was Starfish Prime — the highest-altitude nuclear test in history. In 1962, the US government launched a 1.4 megaton bomb from ...

Some of his closest aides have called for Putin to scare the West over its support for Ukraine with an equivalent jolt to the 30 October 1961 Tsar Bomb test. “I think this is a correct idea ...

The flash of light from the blast was visible up to 620 miles away. The Tsar Bomba, as the test was ultimately known, had a yield between 50 and 58 megatons, twice the size of the second largest ...

The Putin ally is said to have drawn comparisons with the testing of the Tsar Bomba in 1961. He argued that test "forced the United States to negotiate with the Soviet Union and drop its ...

That was Starfish Prime - the highest-altitude nuclear test in history ... And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated ...