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What is the blast radius of the world's most powerful bomb?

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It was a Soviet Nuclear bomb that was the size of a car. It had a yield of 50 megatons (originally it had a yield of 100 megatons but the Soviets decided this level of power would create too much radioactive fallout and might literally crack the planet so they tuned it down). read more

Tsar Ivan bomb/King of Bombs;) was the Western nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan or Vanya), the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Its test on 30 October 1961 remains the most powerful explosive ever detonated. read more

The bomb is reportedly similar to the US military's GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast which is often unofficially called "Mother of All Bombs" derived from its official military acronym "MOAB". This weapon would therefore be the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) weapon in the world. read more

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