But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on Earth - the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba - King of Bombs - detonated in 1961 in the height of the nuclear arms race.

With global fears mounting, the threat of nuclear weapons has never felt so high. So what would the effect of one of the ...

The network's data indicated the Tonga volcano blast produced an atmospheric pressure wave comparable with that from the biggest ever nuclear explosion - the Tsar bomb detonated by the Soviets in ...

And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba ... Radiation from the explosion would fry the circuits of hundreds of instruments in low-earth orbit. Including communication satellites ...

the explosion reached just shy of 40 miles into the Earth’s atmosphere. The mushroom cloud’s stunning width was about 24 miles wide. Tsar Bomba’s shockwave was felt more than 500 miles away ...