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	The '''AN602''' was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever constructed and detonated. Constructed by the Soviet Union, it was tested on 30th October 1961 in an ~~aeriel~~ explosion on the island of Novaya Zemlaya in the ~~countries~~ far north. The bomb yielded approximately 50 megatons of TNT~~.{{Citation needed}}~~		{{Stub}}
			[[File:Tsar Bomba Revised.jpg\|thumb\|A Tsar Bomba-type casing on display at the Sarov atomic bomb museum, Sarov.]]
	~~Its~~ initial prototype was designed to yield 100 megatons of TNT.{{~~Citation needed~~}}		The '''AN602''', more commonly known as the '''Tsar Bomba''', was the most powerful [[nuclear weapon]] ever constructed and detonated. Constructed by the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)\|Soviet Union]], it was tested on 30th October 1961 in an aerial explosion on the island of Novaya Zemlaya in the far north. The bomb yielded approximately 50 megatons of TNT, though its initial prototype was designed to yield 100 megatons of TNT.<ref>{{Web citation\|newspaper=National Museum of Nuclear Science and History\|title=Tsar Bomba\|url=https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/tsar-bomba/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260610044151/https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/tsar-bomba/\|archive-date=2026-06-10}}</ref>

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	[[Category:Nuclear ~~physics~~]]		[[Category:Nuclear weapons]]

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	The '''AN602''' was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever constructed and detonated. Constructed by the Soviet Union, it was tested on 30th October 1961 in an aeriel explosion on the island of Novaya Zemlaya in the countries far north. The bomb yielded approximately 50 megatons of TNT.		The '''AN602''' was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever constructed and detonated. Constructed by the Soviet Union, it was tested on 30th October 1961 in an aeriel explosion on the island of Novaya Zemlaya in the countries far north. The bomb yielded approximately 50 megatons of TNT.{{Citation needed}}

	Its initial prototype was designed to yield 100 megatons of TNT.		Its initial prototype was designed to yield 100 megatons of TNT.{{Citation needed}}

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			[[Category:Nuclear physics]]

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I created a page about the Tsar Bomba.

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The '''AN602''' was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever constructed and detonated. Constructed by the Soviet Union, it was tested on 30th October 1961 in an aeriel explosion on the island of Novaya Zemlaya in the countries far north. The bomb yielded approximately 50 megatons of TNT.

Its initial prototype was designed to yield 100 megatons of TNT.