Tsar Bomba’s resulting destruction was significant. Today, there remains a lasting scar on the area where it was detonated. Radiation spread across a vast distance as well. Soviet weapons ...

And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons. So what would happen if we detonated that above the United ...

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.