PREAMBLE

Big Ivan, better known as Tsar Bomba, was 57 Megatons of Soviet might.
That's 1,400 times Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined and 10 times the entire combined fire power expended in WWII.
In one bomb. One explosion. And, incredibly, that's only half of what it could have done.

In July 1961, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and leader of the USSR) decided that he had had enough of the unspoken nuclear testing moratorium that his country, the US, and the UK had been abiding by since 1958.

The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party would convene that October, providing the perfect venue to show off the USSR's military muscle. With the world's eyes on Moscow, what better way to show the West who was boss than with a "testing spectacular" setting off the largest man-made explosion of all time?

Problem was, they didn't have a bomb nearly big enough for Khrushchev.
Up to that point, the largest hydrogen bomb the Soviets had detonated was the puny 3 MT RDS-37 (albeit the first true hydrogen bomb they built) but Khrushchev demanded something much, much bigger—enough to make America's 15 MT Castle Bravo testin 1954 wilt. And he wanted it built in time for the Congress.

And since telling Nikita Khrushchev "no" simply didn't happen, a four man development team—Victor Adamskii, Yuri Babaev, Yuri Smirnov, and Yuri Trutnev—designed and simultaneously built the 24-foot long, three-stage thermonuclear device in just 15 weeks.
http://gizmodo.com/5977824/the-biggest-bomb-in-the-history-of-the-world

Sambisa forest straight. As e dey hot!

Silvofitz:
Sambisa forest straight. As e dey hot!

Approved by me

ammyluv2002:
Approved by me

Yes i can even see d detonator in ur hands

and na Human being dey wan use am kill ooo ...... mankind and destruction

Sambisa comes to mind

#saynotonukes

#worldwithoutnukes

Silvofitz:
Sambisa forest straight. As e dey hot!

Hehehehehehhehe!

You ne dey go church? Abi u wan kill the chibok girls join? Abeg, take am easy oo.

Lushcream:
and na Human being dey wan use am kill ooo ...... mankind and destruction

My brother...e no tire u? Well, such is the Human nature. Man was concieved in pain, and so will end in pain. Man's life is synonymous with pain!

This Russians never ceased to amaze me.

But what kind launcher will launch such huge bomb....america force my no1 still

Officially designated as AN602 hydrogen bomb, theTsar Bombaused the common three-stage Teller-Ulam design wherein the primary fission reaction is used to compress a secondary mixed fission/fusion fuel layer, which in turn compresses a large, tertiary thermonuclear payload—essentially stringing a pair of hydrogen fission reactions together in order to generate enough energy to instigate fusion in a uranium payload. Since the project was so rushed, only one such weapon was ever built and even then just barely. At 27 tons, it weighed nearly as much as the Tu-95that carried it and was so big that crews had to cut off the plane's bomb-bay doors in order to fit it in. Even so, at 11:32 am on October 30, 1961, theTsar Bombaexited Andrei Durnovtsev's plane at a height of 6.5 miles and slowly parachuted towards Mityushikha Bay test range in Novaya Zemlya (giving the drop plane just 188 seconds to escape). At 2.5 miles high,Big Ivanwent boom.

Silvofitz:
Sambisa forest straight. As e dey hot!

very deadly weapon.

Hmmm.d tsar bomb