🗓⚛️ On October 30, 1961, the world's most powerful thermonuclear bomb AN602 was tested at half its power (in fact, 52.5 Mt of TNT equivalent). The bomb was dropped at the Novaya Zemlya test site by a special Tu-95-202 carrier aircraft, crew commander - Major A.E. Durnovtsev. Consequences of the nuclear explosion of the AN602 bomb: - the flash of the explosion was visible at a distance of more than 1000 km, it was observed in Norway, Greenland and Alaska; - the nuclear mushroom cloud of the explosion rose to a height of 67 kilometers, the shape of the “hat” is two-tiered, the diameter of the upper tier is estimated at 95 kilometers, the lower - 70 km, the cloud was observed 800 km from the site of the explosion; - the blast wave circled the globe three times, the first time in 36 hours 27 minutes; - 780 km from the explosion in a village on Dikson Island, the glass in the windows was blown out; - the sound wave reached Dikson Island at a distance of about 800 kilometers, but there are no reports of destruction or damage to structures in the urban-type settlement of Amderma, which is located much closer (280 km) to the test site; 📄Article about the AN602 bomb on 🇷🇺 MilitaryRussia.Ru TNW