Russia Nuke London - Sixty years ago, Russia unleashed hell on the world - with a mega-bomb powerful enough to wipe out a city and kill millions.
The infamous Tsar Bomba is still the most powerful explosive ever detonated by mankind - with 1570 times the combined energy of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs that ended World War II.
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It was tested by the Soviet Union in 1961 off the coast of Severny Island, near the Arctic Ocean, and caused an explosion that could be seen 630 miles away.
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Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing and the shock waves of the explosion are still felt today as it changed the face of the global arms race.
According to Nuke Map - a tool created by nuclear historian Alex Wallerstein - if the bomb exploded in London today, it would kill about 5.8 million people.
The tool shows that if the explosive fell on the Palace of Westminster, the beam of the fireball would reach Brixton to the south and Camden Town to the north - both about 3 miles away.
The "heavy blast damage" will cover about 5.5 miles, destroying most of the buildings and killing almost everyone in that area.
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This means areas like Stratham to the south and Hackney to the north east will be devastated.
The total radius of the blast would reach Surrey, which is more than 30 miles from Westminster, meaning windows would break and people badly burned.
Nuke Map says the thermal radiation will be felt more than 40 miles away, meaning some people in Redding will have to have their burned limb amputated by doctors.
The City Destroyer was such a huge bomb that it was too big for most aircraft, as it weighed a whopping 60,000 pounds while measuring 26 feet long and 7 feet wide.
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And it came at a time when smaller - more accurate - missile-mounted nuclear weapons were becoming the weapon of choice in the Cold War.
Incredibly, the original bomb's shock wave burst windows as far away as Norway and Finland, more than 1,000 miles from the blast site.
Tsar Bomba's hellish-looking mushroom cloud reached 26 miles into the sky — seven times the height of Mount Everest.
The nine-member Russian crew aboard the bomber — dubbed a Tu-95V — reportedly had a 50 percent chance of surviving the detonation of the 27-ton explosive attached to a parachute to slow it down.
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The Tu-95V was also joined by another aircraft that carried a lab crew of five tasked with monitoring the test.
The bomber plane was also covered in reflective white paint to protect it from the massive amounts of radiation created by the explosion.
When the Tsar Bomba went up in flames - 1.5 miles above the ground - the plane was already 15 miles away while the lab plane was over 20 miles away from the explosion.
A shock wave reportedly struck the Tu-95V, forcing it to descend a mile, but it managed to recover and land safely.
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The massive nuclear bomb was dropped on a remote part of Severny Island and there are no official records of any deaths or injuries from the test.
And the creation of the mega-bomb is seen as a turning point in the Cold War that led, in part, to an international treaty banning the testing of above-ground nuclear weapons.
The bomb's designer, Andrei Sakharov, was also shocked by its creation - and continued to campaign against nuclear proliferation, and his efforts won him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Seconds before the giant mushroom cloud, a blinding light briefly blocked the camera's view of the unholy explosion.
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The blast was 1,570 times more powerful than the American bombs that fell on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people and ending World War II.
To put this in context, the 2020 explosion that swept through Beirut, Lebanon was estimated to be one-tenth the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Email us at exclusive@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4104. You can WhatsApp us on 07423 720 250. We also pay for videos. The impact of Tsar Bomba, the largest Soviet atomic bomb ever tested, on New York City. (Credit: NUKEMAP)
A rare color image of the first nuclear explosion at the Trinity site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. We've been living in the atomic age ever since. (Credit: National Nuclear Security Administration / public domain)
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We tend to only remember the good things. That's why most '80s nostalgia is pink. Rarely mentioned in that decade was the constant feeling of dread, the ever-present knot in your stomach. Why? Because you knew that everything and everyone you knew could end in a flash. So what exactly was the point of something?
The nihilism of the time was nuclear inspired. At the end of the Cold War, East and West turned on each other vast arsenals of nuclear missiles, powerful enough to destroy world civilization many times over.
A surface hit by a Russian SS-25 missile in London. Everything within the radius of the fireball (inner yellow line) is vaporized; The number of casualties in the larger blast area (within the red line) is approaching 100%; And radiation in the green zone can kill within a month. In all, more than half a million Londoners would die, while more than a million would be injured. (Credit: NUKEMAP)
Hovering over the world like an atomic sword of Damocles was the military doctrine of guaranteed destruction - MAD for short, and insane in essence. The rather shaky foundation was that only a madman would start a nuclear war.
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MAD had some obvious shortcomings. What if one side made the rational calculation that the other side wouldn't be fast enough to strike back? What if there was a system error that caused an accidental launch? Or a radar jamming that falsely indicates an attack? And what if it's really crazy
But then Boris Yeltsin climbed into a tank and the Soviet Union collapsed. With her, the nuclear nightmare vanished into thin air. Except it isn't, it really isn't. Fortunately, many confused the end of the Cold War with the end of the nuclear age. But that was wishful thinking. On July 16, 1945, when the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, humanity transitioned to nuclear energy, and we cannot let go of that bubble.
A 1.2 megaton American bomb explodes in the sky over Moscow. The result: nearly 1.4 million Muscovites dead and another 3.7 million wounded. (Credit: NUKEMAP)
We may not like to think about it, but the nuclear threat is here to stay. This became clear after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. While still a "conventional" conflict, it has at least three atomic angles.
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First, there are Putin's not-so-subtle hints that Russia could use nuclear weapons if the West intervenes too directly and/or the tide of the war begins to turn against Moscow. These threats may not be entirely credible, but no one is in a hurry to find out. In other words, they have proven effective in limiting the shape and scope of third-party responses to war.
What if the 50 megabyte Tsar Bomba, the largest atomic bomb ever tested, explodes over Manhattan? A truly terrible price: 7.6 million dead, 4.2 million injured. (Credit: NUKEMAP)
Second, there are the front-line nuclear power plants that serve as tactical chips in a high-stakes game of nuclear poker. First Chernobyl, now Zaporizhia - the largest facility in Europe, allegedly used by the Russians to store materials and carry out attacks, and regularly under fire (which both sides consider the other's responsibility). A few days ago, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a "radiation accident" was narrowly avoided.
Finally, there is the sobering thought that this war might not have happened at all if Ukraine had not given up the nuclear stockpile it inherited from the Soviet Union. It did so in 1994, in exchange for security guarantees from the US, UK and Russia. It is clear that other countries are now seeing how much such guarantees are worth and might consider going nuclear themselves as a precaution.
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To give a sense of scale, this is a little boy with his 15 kiloton explosion over New York, not Hiroshima. The result: "only" 263,000 killed and 512,000 injured. (Credit: NUKEMAP)
The worst solution to a seemingly intractable problem is to ignore it. A long hard look is better - at least the subject will not be trivial, and maybe there is hope behind the horror.
In that spirit, welcome to NUKEMAP. Using deconstructed information about the impact of different types of nuclear weapons, this web tool allows users to model a nuclear strike against a target of their choice. NUKEMAP was founded in 2012 by Alex Wallerstein, a professor of science and technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Professor Wallerstein's special field is the study of the history of nuclear weapons.
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, Professor Wallerstein said NUKEMAP was designed to help people, including himself, understand the true impact of
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