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oct 30, 1961 - Largest ever bomb test conducted

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The Soviet Union explodes the most powerful bomb ever: a 58-megaton atmospheric nuclear weapon, nicknamed the “Tsar Bomba”, over Novaya Zemlya off northern Russia

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oct 30, 1961
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~ 64 years ago