Tupolev-95V, the Soviet Bomber That Dropped the Biggest Nuclear Bomb of All Time

Exactly 61 years ago, on the 30th of October 1961, the world witnessed a first-hand Armageddon rehearsal. The Soviet Union dropped the biggest nuclear weapon ever made before and since – the Tsar Bomb, or Big Ivan. It became the culmination of the nuclear Cold War, as the hydrogen bomb test showed that humanity had gained the capacity to wipe itself out. Carried out in the Russian far north, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, the... (continue reading...)