THE NEW Paper

ILLUSTRATED BY
JACOB FRITZ AND ANDREW MCGOOGAN
The Tsar Bomb
Equal to 50 Tons of TNT

THE MIND BEHIND

THE BOMB

Gargantuan Nuclear
Blast Unleashed by soviet Union

Yulii Borisovich Kharitona

was the Russian Physicist
and chief designer of
the Tsar bomb, and
worked in the Soviet nuclear program for many
years.

the Tsar Bomb was 1,400

After the explosion, the surtimes more powerful than
face of the island was levthe atomic bombings of
eled, and the rocks melted ,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
the animals in the surrounding area were disintegrated and concerns about
radioactive fallout started
to rise in the world powers.
in 1963 the US, UK and USSR
signed the Partial Test Ban
Treaty forcing all nuclear
tests to be underground.

It was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever

detonated. Its test remains the most powerful man made explosion
in history. Developed by
the Soviet Union, the
bomb was equal to the
power of 50 megatons
of TNT.
The Tsar Bomb was detonated over Mityushika
Bay on October 30, 1961.
The resulting fireball
had a vertical radius of
10,000 feet in the sky
and its 210,000 foot tall
mushroom cloud went
into the into stratosphere. Light generated
by the explosion could
be seen from over a
1,000 km away. The
shock wave generated
by the explosion caused
air pressures to crack
and shatter windows
900 km away in Norway and Finland.