Tsar Bomba facts for kids
The Tsar Bomba was the biggest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever made. It was a special type of hydrogen bomb, also known as an H-bomb. The Soviet Union tested this huge bomb on October 30, 1961. Some people also called it the Father of Bombs.
The explosion from the Tsar Bomba was incredibly powerful. It was like 56,000,000 tons of TNT exploding at once! That's 56 Megatons. The bomb was actually designed to be even stronger, at 100 Megatons. But the Soviet scientists decided to reduce its power to 56 Megatons.
The test happened in a place called Novaya Zemlya. The bomb exploded very high up, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) in the air. Because it exploded so high, there wasn't a lot of fallout (dangerous dust) that fell to the ground.
A special Soviet bomber plane, the Tupolev Tu-95, carried the Tsar Bomba. This was the only plane in the world big enough to carry such a massive bomb. When the bomb exploded, the blast wave was so strong that it made the bomber plane drop about one kilometer in height!
Images for kids
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A Tsar Bomba-type casing on display at Sarov
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This picture shows how much damage the Tsar Bomba could cause. The red circle shows where everything would be destroyed, and the yellow circle shows the size of the fireball.
See also
In Spanish: Bomba del Zar para niños
