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| Tsar Bomba | |
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The Tsar Bomba mushroom cloud seen from a distance of 161 km (100 mi). The crown of the cloud is 56 km (35 mi) high at the time of the picture. | |
| Type | Thermonuclear weapon |
| Place of origin | Soviet Union |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Andrei Sakharov, Victor Adamsky, Yuri Babayev, Yuri Smirnov, Yuri Trutnev, and Yakov Zel'dovich. |
| Manufacturer | Soviet Union |
| No. built | 1 |
| Specifications | |
| Weight | 27,000 kg (60,000 lb)[1] |
| Length | 8 m (26 ft)[1] |
| Diameter | 2.1 m (6.9 ft)[1] |
| Blast yield | 50 megatons of TNT (210 PJ; 2.67 kg mass equivalent)[2] |
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