What would happen if a Tsar Bomba went off?

That’s interesting, but if enough Tsar Bombas were dropped into the Challenger Deep, there would be half-a-mile-high waves and a fracture that digs all the way to Earth’s mantle. The explosive force would throw rock and water nearly to the Karman line.

How much can the Tsar Bomba explode?

It had a 100-megaton capacity, though the resulting fallout from such a blast was considered too dangerous for a test situation. Thus, it was modified to yield 50 megatons, which was estimated to be about 3,800 times the strength of the U.S. bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.

Is there anything bigger than the Tsar Bomba?

The Tsar bomba could have been 100+ mt, but they wisely decided to limit it to 57mt by replacing the uranium in the third stage with lead. There has been no other bomb detonated (or even assembled) that was larger.

How powerful was the Tsar Bomba?

Tsar Bomba was the most powerful bomb ever detonated. A thermonuclear weapon created by the USSR’s scientists and engineers to be a powerful example of Soviet science, Tsar Bomba had an explosive yield of 57 megatons, or 57,000 kilotons of TNT. (The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, by contrast, had a yield of about 16 kilotons.)

What if the Soviet Tsar Bomba had been used over Nagasaki?

The detonation of the Fat Man bomb over Nagasaki, as seen from Busan. (Alex Wellerstein / NukeMap3d / Google Earth) Then, we’ve compared that against what it would have looked like had the Soviet’s Tsar Bomba been used instead. The detonation of the Tsar Bomba over Nagasaki, an event that, fortunately, never happened.

What would happen if we detonate a nuclear bomb in space?

Tsar Bomba, which was the largest nuclear bomb that has ever been detonated, was 50 megatons. So what would happen if we detonated that above the United States? For starters, there’s no atmosphere in space.

What if Tsar Bomba was at the bottom of the Marianas Trench?

So what happens if you place Tsar Bomba at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? The darkest place on earth suddenly sees the brightest light as the nuclear chain reaction unleashes an incredible amount of energy. The fireball would expand to about a kilometer in diameter…and then pretty much peter out.