The American New York Times reported that it commented on the video clip released by Russia, in which the Soviets detonated the largest hydrogen bomb the world has known so far, in 1961.
The newspaper writer William J. Broad said that this weapon, which is the most dangerous weapon in the world, does not have a specific theoretical size, but the more fuel, the greater the intensity of the explosion.
He pointed out that when the United States detonated the first such bomb in the world in 1952, its destructive force was 700 times greater than that of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
He noted that the Soviets and the Americans not only competed in building the largest quantity of weapons during the darkest days of the Cold War, but also at times sought to build the largest bomb ever.
The writer is attributed to Robert S. Norris, a historian of the atomic age, said that the Soviets had defeated the Americans in the race to produce the largest bomb.
He added that the secret documentary video, which was revealed by the Russian Nuclear Energy Agency last week, showed within 30 minutes how enormous the explosive power of that hydrogen bomb was.
He stated that the explosive power of this bomb, called the Tsar Bomba, amounted to 50 megatons, or the equivalent of 50 million tons of conventional explosives, which makes its destructive power equivalent to 3333 times the strength of the weapon used in Hiroshima, Japan, and it was much stronger Of the 15 megatons weapon that the United States tried in 1954 in its largest hydrogen bomb test.