Key Point: The Tsar Bomb convinced its creator to become an anti-nuclear activist. On July 10, 1961 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev summoned the USSR's top nuclear weaponeers and told them to ...
Setting aside its declared political purpose, the Tu-95N bomber—the USSR’s only way of delivering the Tsar Bomb—was not a practical delivery platform: NATO fighters would shoot the lumbering plane out ...
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The Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Tsar Bomba Still Haunts Us
The Cold War saw the creation of some truly wild and destructive weapons systems. While the United States and the Soviet ...
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