World's BIGGEST & MOST POWERFUL NUCLEAR BOMB explosion of all time! (Cold War Tsar Bomba!) <br /> <br />"This is the single most powerful device ever constructed (and subsequently responsible for the biggest nuclear explosion in history). Known as the Tsar Bomba, this Soviet designed nuclear weapon had a destructive power 10 times the combined force of all conventional explosives used in World War 2, and was 3000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. <br /> <br />Weighing 27 metric tuns, the Tsar Bomba was so heavy it needed a specially modified plane to carry it to the release sight. <br /> <br />And it was on the 30th of October 1961 that the bomb was dropped from an altitude of 6.5 miles above a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. <br /> <br />Because the nuclear device was so absurdly powerful, a parachute was deployed to slow its descent and allow the plane's crew time to escape from the blast. <br /> <br />When the bomb was detonated it released an energy yield equivalent to 50 million tuns of TNT, and created a gigantic fireball that was visible from 500 miles away. The bomb completely destroyed everything within a 22 mile radius and damaged windows in Norway and Finland some thousands of miles away. <br /> <br />Let's hope that such a ridiculously devastating nuclear event will never again take place. <br /> <br />This has been an Amazing Planet production. Thanks very much for watching." <br /> <br />The music featured in the video -- called "Horror 1" -- was composed by Android Music.
