![]() The book follows the timeline and mingles the bombs in with the bombers, in order to discuss their interoperation and success or failure in their assigned task. Without the relatively advanced design of their copy, carrying their bombs aloft would have been a much more difficult affair, although these were eventually replaced by more advanced indigenous designs using jet or turboprop engines, such as the Tu-95 Bear. ![]() It goes through the whole process, beginning with the look-alike bombs and their reverse engineered Tu-4 carriage, which was little more than a carbon copy of three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses that landed intact in Soviet territory during WWII. This book is number 10 in the series Europe War from Helion, and details the period briefly described above, although it doesn’t concentrate solely on the Tsar Bomba as you might have otherwise thought. During the period between 1949 and 62, they detonated 214 warheads of increasing size, with the Tsar Bomba just one of the many tests, all of which were carried out in the open air, and many were part of a larger exercise that involved the ingress of unprotected soldiers and vehicles into contaminated areas soon after detonation, with horrendous consequences for some of them. They started small, mimicking the first Fatman sized bombs for proof of concept, and as they progressed their yields grew larger and the bombs became more compact and transportable. Using espionage to obtain any information that they could, they did their best to get on a par with the Allies, by any means necessary. The Tsar Bomba bomb yield is estimated to have been roughly 57 megatons, about 3,800 times the power of the 15-kiloton atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.Live Testing of Soviet Nuclear Bombs, 1949-62Īfter WWII, Soviet Russia was desperate to catch-up to their former Allies in the field of nuclear weapons, as Stalin’s paranoia and projection led him to believe that the US, UK or the newly formed NATO alliance were planning on using their newest and most devastating weapon upon their communist enemies, as that’s what he would have done given half a chance, after all. Known in the West as Tsar Bomba and in Russia as “King of Bombs,” the name was no exaggeration. Tsar Bomba was detonated in a test over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961. It is the soviet thermonuclear bomb called RDS-220. ![]() It is the most powerful nuclear weapon ever made. Unknown to billions of people around the world, there is another bomb that is 3,300 times more powerful than the bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima. ![]() Code name Little Boy and Fat Man, the two bombs “ killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians.” Unfortunately, when most Americans think of nuclear weapons, the first things that probably come to their mind are the two nuclear bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Russia currently has 6,255 nuclear warheads followed by the United States at 5,550. Russia can use nuclear weapons and Putin is not bluffing on his threat. The country has the most nuclear weapons in the world. Whatever the Western position is, the world is closer to World War III than ever. Whether he meant what he said or not, the Russian President’s statement should be taken seriously considering that he started the February 24 war with Ukraine after the Western leaders crossed what he called “the redline’ for violating the 2014 Minsk Agreements. “I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for separate components and more modern than those of Nato countries and when the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, to protect Russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal,” And he added: “ It’s not a bluff.” In a speech to the Russian people, President Putin said: This week, President Putin raised the nuclear threat and warned Western leaders that he wasn’t bluffing about the use of nuclear weapons if the security of Russia is at stake. ![]() However, with the war entering a new phase after Russian President Putin announced a “partial mobilization” effort, many around the world are worried the escalation could lead to an all-out nuclear way. Yesterday, Poland distributed iodine tablets to its citizens as fears grow over Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Ukraine as fighting between Russia and Ukraine rages on.Ĭoncerned about the fight around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the country handed out iodine pills to regional fire departments to give to people in the event of radioactive exposure, Reuters reported, citing the country’s deputy minister. ![]()
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