The June 10, 1961 Nikita Khrushchev approved the project "Big Ivan" or "Tzar" (Zar pump), by which they proceeded to create the largest nuclear bomb in history. Thus began building "Tsar", a 100-megaton nuclear bomb, eight meters long and two wide, was so large that a bomber had to be amended to put it inside. It weighed 27 tons. The pump is built into the secret complex Arzamas-16. It takes 15 weeks to complete. It was composed of several nuclear bombs that explode at the same time. The type of detonation would be composed of several phases (fission-fusion-fission).
These builders were startled by the size of the pump and decided to go changing the premises of this: -had to remove half of the load, leaving at 50 megatons for fear the impact that would result in climate. He decided to detonate
four kilometers height so that the impact will not happen on the ground creating a substantial earthquake that no one could foresee the results. Some claim that could have altered to the angle you hold the land against its circular motion.
-bomber was painted white to reflect some of the heat and to give a chance of surviving crew of the bomber. For the same reason you put a parachute on the bomb for the same reason. To allow time for the bomber away.
On October 30, 1961 would be launched from a height of 15,000 meters. The flashing light would be seen at a distance of 1000 km and the sound wave would take 49 minutes to reach the distance. In the seismic meter detected an earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale. The shock wave would break windows in Finland itself, it would give up to three times around the earth. The area that was formed after the explosion would touch the ground and have a height of 64 kilomentros, reaching the mesosphere and a width at the widest part of the area of \u200b\u200b35 km. You can still see the footprints in impact site.
After that never again will try anything. Many countries continue to do their tests but they never dimensions. To get a comparative idea say that the bomb was equivalent to 3800 Hiroshima bombs, nuclear bombs the U.S. military standards are 150 kilotons, 333 times smaller.
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