As for the 100-megaton nuclear devices, head Soviet nuclear physicist and later dissident Andrei Sakharov had a plan to achieve that kind of yield. Sakharov’s team would use “clustering and ...

Soviet scientists arrived at a 50-megaton yield but for decades their nation was happy to accept the higher American figure. And yet it could have been even more powerful—a full 100 megatons.

Had the Tsar Bomba been detonated with its full 100-megaton force, the resulting fallout would have totaled 25 percent of all fallout emitted since Hiroshima. Although the actual yield has been ...

Experts say a 50 megaton underwater nuclear bomb would be able to create tsunami waves reaching more than 320ft - the 'Status-6' is allegedly able to carry a 100 megaton warhead. The Status-6 ...

The apocalypse brought on by these 10-100 super bombs wouldn't be all fire ... had as much as a 58 megaton yield. Read next BI Tech Memo An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down.

Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Pentagon realized that deploying megaton-yield gravity bombs over Europe the highest level nuclear weapon in US inventory was not just unlikely ...