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Soviet Nuclear Weapons (863 words) |
 | This three stage weapon was actually a 100 megaton bomb design, but the uranium fusion tamper of the teritiary (and probably secondary) stage(s) was replaced by one made of lead to eliminate fast fission by the fusion neutrons. |
| The nickname Tsar Bomba is a reference to the Russian proclivity for making gigantic but useless artifacts for show. |
| The world's largest bell (the Tsar Kolokol) and cannon (the Tsar Pushka), neither of which are actually useful for anything, are on display at the Kremlin. |
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Tsar Bomba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1589 words) |
| The Tsar Bomba was too large to fit entirely within the bomb bay of the Tu-95, the largest Soviet bomber of the day. |
| The Tsar Bomba was the culmination of a series of very high yield thermonuclear weapons designed by the USSR and USA (e.g., the Mark-17[2] and B41) during the 1950s. |
| Soviets restarted their tests two months before Tsar Bomba, and there was no de-jure moratorium in place at the time (the USA had already announced that it considered itself free to resume testing after further notice). |
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