Talk:Godzilla (2014 film)/@comment-25285745-20150505002037/@comment-1418880-20160403192137

You mean Castle Bravo, King of the Monsters. Tsar Bomba was a Russian Nuke tested at the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in 1961. It's nice to know someone at least knows that name, though. The level of ignorance shown by most people these days disgusts me. Tsar Bomba was the single most powerful weapon ever created by mankind, with a yield of 50 megatons of TNT. Castle Bravo, by comparison, had a yield of only 15 megatons of TNT. Only 1 was ever built, which was used in the test. Though the Soviets bragged about the design in their propaganda, in reality the bomb was too impractical for production. It's immense weight meant that no missle could carry it; it could only be dropped from a specially modified bomber. The plane itself required the removal of the bomb bay doors and some of its fuel tanks just to handle the weight, greatly limiting the range to which it could be carried and the speed of the plane that delivered it. Once released, the plane had just enough time to fly twenty five miles (45 KM) away from ground zero. The blast, however, was so large and so powerful that it would be virtually impossible for the plane to escape from the explosion unscathed, so the chance of the crew being killed by the blast was extremely high. The plane that dropped the prototype actually plummeted over a mile in altitude before the pilot regained control. To make matters worse, the majority of the destructive force inefficiently radiated upwards into space, and the fallout was equal to 14.5% of ALL THE FALLOUT FROM EVERY NUCLEAR WEAPON EVER DETONATED UP TO THAT POINT! You can imagine what the effect of multiple detonations of such bombs on the earth would be. In the end, the limitations and the dangers of nuclear fallout led to a halt on all work on the design, as well as the cancellation of a 100 megaton version. The casings already made for future bombs are now on display at the Russian Atomic Weapons museum in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons in Snezhinsk.