the Tsar Bomba was carried externally, prompting Soviet aircraft engineers to remove the bomb bay doors and fitting a special release mechanism on the “Bear” Tu-95 bomber. The Tsar Bomba’s ...

And all this came from a 1.4 megaton bomb. Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons. So what would happen if we detonated that above the United ...