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The monster atomic bomb that was too big to use

The Tsar Bomba, meaning ‘Emperor of Bombs’.  The Soviet Union detonated it on October 30, 1961.  The explosion had a yield of 50 megatons, equal to 50 million tons of TNT.  That would be 1,500 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

reapers

the mushroom grew
larger than the garden
scorching the earth
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October 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
scary and devastating !
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October 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Sad truth bears no glory. Aloha, my friend.
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