Interesting And Amazing Event-7

**- Tsar Bomba:- In 1963, the Soviet Union set to test their crowning nuclear achievement, the Tsar Bomba. Clocking in at 25 feet long and 30 meteric tons, the Tsar Bomba was the most powerful bomb ever detonated in human history. The bomb itself was so big it did not fit on any of the existing aircraft. Finally, a military aircraft called the Tupolev was found, and was large enough to support the weight of giant bomb. The bomb had to be affixed to the Tupolev and dropped from a parachute, leaving the plane he chance to get away before the explosion.

When Tsar Bomba detonated, it created a fireball that was five miles wide and could be seen from 630 miles away. The resulting mushroom cloud was 40 miles high, spreading 63 miles from end to end. The energy released was equivalent the detonation of 57 million tons of TNT, ten times more more pwerful than all of the the ammunitions expended during World War II combined. The blast wave orbited the earth three times. The Soviet Union faced international outrage, the US, the UK and Sweden allcondemn the bomb. Shortly before the detonation, a small change had been made in Tsar Bomba, in an effort to tone down the damage it would inflict. Before the change bomb would have been twice as powerful