A chilling photo captures the explosion of the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful bomb ever produced, detonated by the Soviet Union at the Novaya Zemlya test site on October 30, 1961. [768×536]
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A chilling photo captures the explosion of the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful bomb ever produced, detonated by the Soviet Union at the Novaya Zemlya test site on October 30, 1961. [768×536]
by OkRespect8490
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For reference, that mushroom cloud wa approx 42 miles (~65 kilometers) high.
The parachute to slow the descent, which ensured the deploying plane could escape, was so large that it disrupted the textile industry in the Soviet Union.