A day in history. On October 30, 1961, the "Tassing Bomb" test was conducted in the Soviet Union, the head of the team developing the AN602 aerial thermonuclear bomb was Academician Igor Kurchatov.
The work lasted about seven years. Nikita Khrushchev announced the upcoming tests of a 50 megaton bomb in his report to the 22nd Congress of the CPSU. A special Tu-95V aircraft was prepared for testing.
Pilot Andrey Dornovtsev was appointed the ship's commander. The bomb was dropped from a height of 10,500 m using a parachute system on a conditional target inside the Sukhoi Nos nuclear test site in Nubia Zemlya. The bomb was detonated barometrically at 11:33, after 188 seconds. After being dropped at an altitude of 4200 m above sea level. It is the most powerful explosive device in human history. The total energy of the explosion, according to various sources, ranges from 57 to 58.6 Mt in TNT value. The nuclear mushroom of the explosion rose to a height of 67 km. The test of the fearsome "Tsar Bomba" made a strong impression on the whole world.