English Explanatory Dictionary

Tsar Bomba

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuclear bomb ever exploded.

Word forms

Tsar Bomba the Tsar Bomba

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Царь-бо́мба (Carʹ-bómba, “emperor of bombs”).

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