Novaya Zemlya
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Novaya Zemlya, also spelled Novaja Zemlja, is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island,
Willem Barentsz' ship among the Arctic ice.
A perception of a "Zemblien", a Novaya Zemlya native, by a 17th-century French traveller
Landscape in Novaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic National Park
Wide shot of Novaya Zemlya
Tsar Bomba
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The Tsar Bomba is the most powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. A project of the Soviet Union, it was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, tested on 30 October 1961 at th
Novaya Zemlya
…Site; it was used for air drops and underground testing of the largest of Soviet nuclear bombs, in particular the 30 October 1961 air burst explosion of Tsar Bomba, the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. The Russian people knew of Novaya Zemlya from the 11th century, when hunters from Novgorod…
A Tsar Bomba-type casing on display at the Sarov atomic bomb museum, Sarov
View of the possible fission bomb primary within the Tsar Bomba casing, under construction at KB-11.
The Tsar Bomba's fireball, about 8 km (5 mi) wide at its maximum, was prevented from touching the ground by the shock wave, but reached nearly 10.5 km (34,000 ft) in the sky – the altitude of the deploying bomber.
The mushroom cloud of Tsar Bomba seen from a distance of 161 km (100 mi). The crown of the cloud is 65 km (40 mi) high at the time of the picture. (source: Rosatom State Corporation Communications Department 20–08–2020)