RDS-220
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The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan[1] or Vanya), known by Western nations as Tsar Bomba (Template:Lang-rus), was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Tested on 30 October 1961 as an experimental verification of calculation principles and multi-stage thermonuclear weapon designs, it also remains the most powerful explosive ever detonated. It was also referred to as Kuzma's mother (Template:Lang-rus),[2] possibly referring to First secretary Nikita Khrushchev's promise to "show the United States a Kuzma's mother" (an idiom roughly translating to "We'll show you") at a 1960 session of United Nations General Assembly.[3][4]
- ↑ "Смотрины "Кузькиной матери". Как СССР сделал и взорвал "Царь-бомбу"". 29 October 2014., Russian
- ↑ Viktor Suvorov, Kuz'kina Mat'. A Chronicle of Great Decade, Dedicated to 50 years of Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Кузькина мать: Хроника великого десятилетия), Moscow, 2011, ISBN 978-5-98124-561-9
- ↑ "Prominent Russians: Nikita Khrushchev". Russia Today. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
- ↑ Nikita Khrushchev. Sergei Khrushchev (ed.). Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Volume 3: Statesman (1953–1964). University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 292.