> The Tsar Bomba was a three-stage bomb with Trutnev-Babaev[10] second and third stage design,[11] with a yield of 50 megatons.[12] This is equivalent to about 1,570 times the combined energy of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,[13]
10 times the combined energy of all the conventional explosives used in World War II,[14] one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and 10% of the combined yield of all nuclear tests to date. A three-stage H-bomb uses a fission bomb primary to compress a thermonuclear secondary, as in most H-bombs, and then uses energy f…