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60 years of ‘Tsar Bomba’, history’s most powerful nuke
This post was originally published on October 31, 2018. I republished it once in 2020 after Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy corporation, released 40 minutes of previously classified footage of RDS-220’s explosion on August 28, 2020 (embedded below). Watch this … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Wellerstein, Andrei Sakharov, Arzamas-16, John F. Kennedy, lead tamper, Nikita Khrushchev, nuclear fusion, RDS-220, RIPPLE
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