Big Bang Theory

Looks like a bomb

Blows up like a bomb

This was the Tsar of all bombs

In Russian 'Novaya Zemlya' means 'the New Earth' and, once upon a time, the world's most powerful thermonuclear bomb (Russians called it the Tsar of the bombs) was detonated over an island lost in the Arctic Sea. This nuclear test was carried on to prove the hypothesis proposed by Yuri Babaev and Yuri Smirnov that it was possible to design nuclear devices of virtually unlimited power.

The Czar of the Bombs was 6,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. The mushroom cloud extended 60 kilometers into the stratosphere and the shock wave reverberated three times around the Earth. Results of this experiment convinced Mikhail Gorbachev that it is possible to extinguish the life on the Earth. He initiated the largest peace initiative ever and took the largest risk any leader of any nation took before to lay foundations for genuine nuclear disarmament.

This was also the start of the end for Russia as a super power...