Estimated yield: 15 megatons of TNT Location: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands Date: March 1, 1954 Details: The largest nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States. A thermonuclear weapon ...
The first hurdle Haverly identifies is the scale of the bomb required. The largest nuclear explosion was that of Tsar Bomba, detonated by the USSR in 1961: it had a yield equivalent to 50 megatons ...