On this place the Soviet Union tested on October 30th 1961 its strongest hydrogen bomb, the so-called "Tsar Bomb" (Царь-бомба - Soviet codename RDS-220) with a power equvalent to 50 megatons of TNT.
Zobrazit na velké mapě
Major Kong about Russia in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove
Quote Of The Day
"We would all want to avoid a second Cold War. If we get it, I have no doubts, who will win it. As Europe, we are ten times richer in sources and sources of power than Russia. Together with the United States twenty times." - Radosław Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister