Interesting Fact Of The Day

The largest bomb ever built and detonated was AN602 (Tsar Bomba) in 1961. It produced an explosion equivalent to 50 million tons of TNT. The fireball was 5 miles wide, and the blast radius was more than 22 miles, capable of destroying even the largest city in a single blast. In comparison, it was 2400 times stronger than the bomb used to destroy Hiroshima, and due to a triple-stage fusion-boosted process, was about the same physical size. The mushroom cloud was 7 times higher than Mt. Everest. Even though it was detonated 4 miles above the Earth’s surface, the seismic shock measured as a 5.25 on the Richter scale, and traveled all the way around the planet 3 times. Atmospheric focusing carried the blast damage to more than 600 miles away from ground zero. It generated 1.4% as much energy as the sun itself. The entire explosion took less than a half a second.

It was the single most powerful device ever created by mankind. And do you want to know the scary part?

They only ran it at half yeild; it was designed to yeild a 100 MegaTon explosion.