The Tsar Bomba, Largest Man-Made Explosion Ever, October 1961, Discovery Channel
Hiroshima, Japan, WW2: 16,000 tons of TNT equivalent
Nagasaki, Japan, WW2: 22,000 tons of TNT equivalent
Tsar Bomba device: 50,000,000 tons of TNT equivalent: more than 2,000 times the explosive energy of each of the bombs that leveled 2 entire cities in Japan in 1945.
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