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Russia has released a high-profile cinematographic record of the explosion of the world’s largest hydrogen bomb, known as the Tsar Bomba, which took place in the Soviet Union some 60 years ago.
The hydrogen bomb, which contained more than 50 million tons of conventional explosives, was tested in October 1961. The bomb exploded and exploded at an altitude of 4,000 meters above the island of Novaya Zimlya in the Arctic Ocean.
The documentary shows a huge fireball and a mushroom rising into the sky after exploding at a height of 60 kilometers. The explosion was filmed by cameras mounted on the ground from four different angles and by cameras mounted on two Soviet aircraft.
“The extremely powerful hydrogen charge test … confirmed that the Soviet Union is in the process of developing a thermonuclear weapon of 50 megatons, 100 megatons and more,” says the narrator of the film.
The documentary was released last week for the first time by the state nuclear agency Rosatom on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the nuclear industry in Russia.
The Tsar Bomb (essentially the king of bombs), developed between 1956 and 1961 when the Soviet Union engaged in arms competition with the United States, was the largest hydrogen bomb ever built and was 3,300 times more powerful. bigger than the bomb that hit Hiroshima.
The 30-minute film, which begins with the title “top secret”, records all stages, from the transport by train of a 27-ton weapon with an air bomb shell, to the explosion and measurements of radioactive waste.
The Tsar Bomba was much more powerful than the 15-megaton “Castel Bravo” hydrogen bomb that the United States tested in 1954 on Bikini Atoll.
Source: ΑΠΕ – ΜΠΕ
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