At 57 Megatons, the Tsar Bomba Was A Useless Nuclear Bomb
At 57 Megatons, the Tsar Bomba Was A Useless Nuclear Bomb Such a huge bomb came about only because Soviet scientists had a good idea about how to proceed. Here's What You Need to Remember: Setting aside its declared political purpose, the Tu-95N bomber—the USSR's only way of delivering the Tsar Bomb—was not a practical delivery platform: NATO fighters would shoot the lumbering plane out of the sky long before it had a chance to drop its huge bomb. You can count on one hand the number of targets in Europe big enough to merit the Tsar Bomb's attentions.
Source: nationalinterest.org