#TsarBomba - the largest nuclear weapon ever set off (3,800 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on HIROSHIMA)- was exploded by the Soviets on THIS DAY
On 30th October 1961, The Soviets detonated
#TsarBomba over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean; the largest nuclear weapon ever set off, it produced the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded.
#TsarBomba over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean; the largest nuclear weapon ever set off, it produced the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded.
The Tsar Bomba was the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, and the most powerful human-made explosion in history:
What it was
The Tsar Bomba was a three-stage thermonuclear bomb, officially known as RDS-220, but nicknamed "Tsar Bomba" in the West.
When it was detonated
The Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961 over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean.
How powerful it was
The Tsar Bomba had a yield of 50 megatons of TNT, which was about 3,800 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.
How it was delivered
The Tsar Bomba was dropped by the Tupolev Tu-95, the only plane in the world that could carry it.
The impact
The Tsar Bomba's blast leveled the uninhabited village of Severny, and damaged buildings more than 100 miles away. The seismic shockwave circled the globe three times.
Why it was created
The Tsar Bomba was created as a show of Soviet strength during the Cold War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered its creation to demonstrate the U.S.S.R.'s military prowess.
Also in 1905, On October 30th Emperor Nicholas II issued the October Manifesto, bringing the end of unlimited autocracy in Russia and ushering in an era of constitutional monarchy.
October Manifesto, promised to guarantee
civil liberties (e.g., freedom of speech, press, and assembly),
to establish a broad franchise, and
to create a legislative body (the Duma) whose members would be popularly elected and whose approval would be necessary before the enactment of any legislation.
Threatened by the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Nicholas faced the choice of establishing a military dictatorship or granting a constitution. Although both the tsar and his advising minister Sergey Yulyevich, Count Witte, had reservations about the latter option, it was determined to be tactically the better choice.
Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. For several years before 1905 and especially after the humiliating Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), diverse social groups demonstrated their discontent with the Russian social and political system. Their protests ranged from liberal rhetoric to strikes and included student riots and terrorist assassinations. These efforts, coordinated by the Union of Liberation, culminated in the massacre of peaceful demonstrators in the square before the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, on Bloody Sunday (January 9 [January 22, New Style], 1905).