So wha do people Think

actually its not the most powerful.

No, this was by far the most powerful bomb ever constructed. Had a maximum yield of 100MT, but they dialed that down to 50MT for the test because they knew that there would be too much fallout as well as no chance for the pilots of the bomber to escape.

This bomb however was just too large and heavy to have any practicle use in war.

The Tsar Bomba was flown to its test site by a specially modified Tu-95V release plane, flown by Major Andrei Durnovtsev, which took off from an airfield in the Kola peninsula. The release plane was accompanied by a Tu-16 observer plane that took air samples and filmed the test. Both aircraft were painted with a special reflective white paint to limit heat damage.

The bomb, weighing 27 tons, was so large (8 metres (26 ft) long by 2 metres (6.6 ft) in diameter) that the Tu-95V had to have its bomb bay doors and fuselage fuel tanks removed. The bomb was attached to an 800 kilogram fall-retardation parachute, which gave the release and observer planes time to fly about 45 kilometres (28 mi) from ground zero.

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That quote doesn't disagree with Eat Uranium's post, by the way. Bomb weight is not the same as nuclear yield.

Luckily these kind of things are in the hands of politicians, people who are chosen by humantiy because of their outstanding integrity, responsibility and all round honourable intentions.

Be glad you don't live in America.

Anyway, the Tsar Bomba was never a useful weapon. Much too big physically, and the yield is impractically large. It was only designed as a political demonstration.

100M they had to dial it down that would have tore the earth to shreds but the fact of nuclear bombs is stupid altogether did you know a area that has been nuked is not habitable for 50 years!

not only that every nuke is destroying the world its better to have a device that transmits a sonic wave that kills people but leaves the buildings intact so the area is okay and it dosnt destroy anything
and the worst thing is believe it or not nuclear power stations!, when they go into meltdown the liquid is scorching hot and stays scorching hot for YEARS that could cause problems i know we cat fix all the problems at once but we have to start,

P.S a little off-topic Scientists have already developed a car that has no engine and generates only a little gas and water!!
isnt that better but unfortunately the greedy taxes have put up the price of the car to 50,000 the tax office gets enough from cigarettes and fuel!

P.P.S my speech is complete

actually its not the most powerful.

that was Tsar.

Humans are the most imature and stupid beings, certainly on earth, what kind of an idiot makes a weapon which is uncontrollably powerfull and clumsy about what it kills, worse than that is who dictates where it goes, i say shove it up your A**, then see how you like your F***ing weapon...

Its called "experimentation". Everyone should experiment. If they didn't, in the future, us "imature" and stupid beings would live, but completely mindlessly.

I don't think "experimentation" on WOMD will advance the human race even a little bit.
It might have been a deterrent when there was just one, but now every one has some
Is that really an advancement.

Perhaps then it was positive in helping avoid nuclear war?

Quite true...

I don't believe nuclear weapons will bring about any good, after all nukes came about after the good effects of nuclear energy were discovered, what a way to s**t on einstien's major discovery...

I don't think any country should have nukes, but nobody is getting rid of them because if one country does, then that removes the fear of retaliation if another country nukes them, it's just one f****ed up stand-off, and the people are the collateral damage...

Damn the scientists who made them!..

Heh, nukes may look very cool. Atleast in some games, like the fatman (But I don't like the fatman at all)