Fast Facts about Tsar Code Name: Big Ivan ( Tsar Bomba ) Time and date: 11:32 AM October 30, 1961 Location: D-2 Sector, Zone C, Sukhoy Nos Peninsula, Novaya Zemlya, Russia Height of detonation: 4,000 meters (12,800 feet) Yield: 50,000 kilotons (50 megatons) Weight: 25 tons Coordinates of detonation: 73.85N, 54.50E Dimensions: 8 m long, 2 m in diameter Other Interesting Facts about Detonation → Tsar Bomba was built in only 15 weeks

→ It was dropped from a modified Tu-95 plane.

→ The shockwave of the explosion travelled the Earth three times

→ The mushroom cloud that formed had a diameter of around 40 km

→ The parachute attached to the bomb weighted 800 kg.

→ The modified Tu-95 was flown by Major Andrei Durnovtsev.

→ The plane which dropped the bomb was able to fly around 45 km from ground zero during the 188 seconds until the bomb detonated.

→ 1.4% of the power output of the Sun .

→ The mushroom cloud that formed was 64 km high, 168 times higher than the Empire State Building

→ The power produced during the fission-fusion process was 5.4 yottawatts, corresponding to around