And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest ... So, there would be no mushroom-shaped cloud and no subsequent blast wave or mass destruction.

The Tsar Bomba wasn’t just a bomb—it was a message. In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever built, unleashing a 50-megaton explosion that was 3,000 times more ...

That's over 1,600 times more powerful than the largest nuclear bomb ever tested (the Tsar Bomba ... kilometers of ocean water would contain the blast, while nearby currents could distribute ...