The Largest Nuclear Explosion Ever
Tsar Bomba is the Western name for RDS-220, which was the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. It was developed by the Soviet Union for a demonstration of Soviet scientific, technical and military power of that time. The bomb had a yield of about 50 megatons of TNT and it was codenamed Ivan by its developers. The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961 in Novaya Zemlya, an archipelago in Artic Sea.
