As built and tested its yield was 52 to 58 MTons, depending on method of measurement. It had a maximum blast radius of about 60 miles.
As designed it had the capacity for up to 100 MTons yield.
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The Tsar Bomba was a type of atomic bomb, specifically a thermonuclear fusion bomb. It was the highest yield atomic bomb ever built at 52 to 58 MTons depending on method of measurement.The Tsar Bomba was not the largest atomic bomb ever built, that was Ivy Mike also a thermonuclear fusion bomb. Mike's yield was only 10 MTons.
Around 64 kilometres / 40 miles.
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Russia currently owns the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world. Also Russia made and detonated the biggest nuclear bomb in history called the Tsar bomb.
The last Tsar was Tsar Nicholas II ;)