Tsar Bomba

## Extended Information

### Full Name

Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бо́мба), (Codename: Ivan or Vanya) Also known by the alphanumerical designation AN602

### Comment(s)

You see Ivan...!

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## Background

The **Tsar Bomba** (Russian: Царь-бо́мба), (code name: *Ivan* or *Vanya*), also known by the alphanumerical designation **AN602**, was a hydrogen aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. Tsar Bomba was developed in the Soviet Union (USSR) by a group of nuclear physicists under the leadership of Igor Kurchatov, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Tested on 30 October 1961, the scientific result of the test was the experimental verification of calculation principles and multi-stage thermonuclear charges. The bomb was dropped to descent by parachute from a Tu-95V aircraft, and detonated autonomously 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) above the Sukhoy Nos ("Dry Nose") cape of Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mityushikha Bay, north of Matochkin Strait. The detonation was intended to be secret, but was detected by United States intelligence agencies, via a KC-135A aircraft (Operation *SpeedLight*) in the area at the time. The Boeing KC-135A-BN 55-3121 was said to be the fourth KC-135 built. A secret U.S. reconnaissance aircraft named "Speed Light Alpha" monitored the blast, coming close enough to have its antiradiation paint scorched.

The bhangmeter results and other data suggested the bomb yielded around 58 Mt (243 PJ), which was the accepted yield in technical literature until 1991, when Soviet scientists revealed that their instruments indicated a yield of 50 Mt (209 PJ). As they had the instrumental data and access to the test site, their yield figure has been accepted as more accurate. In theory, the bomb would have had a yield in excess of 100 Mt (418 PJ) if it had included a uranium-238 fusion tamper but, because only one bomb was built to completion, that capability has never been demonstrated. The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics, in Snezhinsk.

AN602 (Tsar Bomba) was a modification of the RN202 project. A number of published books, even some authored by those involved in product development 602, contain inaccuracies that are replicated elsewhere, including wrongly identifying AN602 as RDS-202 or RN202.

## Dangers

Due to the area of destruction, it is not uncommon to see a loading time of around 20 minutes for the full damage to be realized. This time can be shortened by using optimization mods, such as optifine, or having more processing power/RAM assigned to the game.

Make sure your base is far enough from the explosion or **you will die even with schrabidium armor**. The explosion will produce **extreme radiation (5000 RAD/s)** anywhere near the crater.

But if the **Tsar Bomba does not have the Tsar Bomba Core, it is basically just a more expensive** Fat Man**.**

## Fabrication

It can be done in the assembly machine with:

* (1) Steel Sphere
* (6) Big Titanium Shell
* (2) Small Steel Shell
* (1) Large Steel Fins
* (5) Military Grade Circuit Board (Tier 4)
* (24) Gold Wire
* (12) Tungsten Wire
* (6) Ink Sac

## What you need to arm it:

* (4) Bundle of Propellant (**modern one**)
* (1) Plutonium Core (**modern one**)
* (1) Tsar Bomba Core (**uncraftable**)

You can detonate it either using a detonator or redstone signal, like all bombs.

Because the Tsar Bomba Core is uncraftable, this bomb is **only practical in creative**. If you want to **save your resources and ores**, please just use a Fat Man instead. A bit less expensive.

The Tsar Bomba Core is uncraftable because it would be **too overpowered on survival servers**, so if you want destruction, **do it in creative**.

## Trivia

* It is the largest nuclear weapon ever made in human history.
* The experiment was carried out on October 30, 1961.
* The actual explosion yield is 58 megatons of TNT, more than twice that of Mount St. Helens.