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"Gruel"
Tsar Bomb, the product "A602EN" "Ivan", gruel - the thermonuclear device was developed in the USSR in 1954-1961 gg. a group of Soviet physicists headed by Academician Igor Kurchatov. The development team consisted of Andrei Sakharov, Victor Adamski, Yuri Babayev, Yuri Trutnev Yuri Smirnov. The name "gruel" appeared after Khrushchev's famous saying "we still show America gruel 'after the events in Cuba in anticipation of the Cuban missile crisis, which was in a relatively short period of time followed by an explosion of a thermonuclear bomb test.
Vzryr world's most powerful thermonuclear device was held October 30, 1961 at 11 h. 32 min., During the XXII Congress of the CPSU. (In Soviet times, it was made "labor successes make gifts" to the Congress of the CPSU). The bomb was dropped from bombardirovschka TU-95 with a height of 10, 5 km. Undermining bomb occurred at an altitude of 4500 m above sea level (4200 m above the surface of the landfill). The power of the explosion was according to different sources from 50 to 58 megatons of TNT.
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Vzryr world's most powerful thermonuclear device was held October 30, 1961 at 11 h. 32 min., During the XXII Congress of the CPSU. (In Soviet times, it was made "labor successes make gifts" to the Congress of the CPSU). The bomb was dropped from bombardirovschka TU-95 with a height of 10, 5 km. Undermining bomb occurred at an altitude of 4500 m above sea level (4200 m above the surface of the landfill). The power of the explosion was according to different sources from 50 to 58 megatons of TNT.
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