Summary: Major Andrei Durnovtsev was about to get airborne in his TU95 Bear. Hanging from the white painted aircraft was a 27 Ton monster, the largest nuclear bomb ever devised. It was so vast that he didn't even know if he would survive the explosion when he delivered the Tsar Bomba.<br> <br> <br> The site of the detonation.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Tsar Bomba's fireball which reached 5 miles in diameter.<br> <br> <br> <br> The mushroom cloud of the Tsar Bomba the crown of which reached 45 miles up into the atmosphere.<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Croquant, Minatom, SA3.0 and atomicforum.com
