Question by Hurro H: How big is the TSAR BOMBA?
How big is the actual shock wave?
Do you think they will ever build a bomb that could destroy the earth? if so when?
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Answer by Spellbound (bigredan *JPA)
The Tsar Bomba was 50 megatons. It weighed 27 tonnes and was 26 feet long and had a diameter of 6.5 feet.
The fireball was 5 miles is diameter, I could find out about the shock wave – other than it broke windows in Finland.
A bomb that destroys the Earth – no. All weaponry has to be useful and the Tsar Bomba hit the limit of usefulness – any bigger and you destroy too much, it is difficult to deliver and smaller, more directed warheads can disable an enemy much more efficiently than a blanket destruction.
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doctorbochin says
Tsar Bomba (Царь-бомба), literally "king Bomb", is the Western name for the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (codenamed "Иван" (Ivan) by its developers) — the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about 100 megatons of TNT; however that was reduced by half in order to limit the amount of nuclear fallout that would result. Two bombs were built, a mock bomb and the real bomb, with the real bomb being tested on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. Despite testing, the weapon never entered service; it was simply a demonstration of the capabilities of the Soviet Union's military technology at that time. The mock bomb was stored in the Russian Nuclear Weapons Museum in Sarov.