The Soviets built a bomb that circled the Earth three times. π₯ . . . On October 30, 1961, Tsar Bomba was dropped over Novaya Zemlya with a yield of 50 megatons β over 1,500 times Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The mushroom cloud rose 42 miles, seven times the height of Everest. The flash was seen 620 miles away. The shockwave lapped the planet three full times before dying.
Source
Atomic Heritage Foundation, 2014, 'Tsar Bomba' article; corroborated by Nuclear Weapon Archive entry on Tsar Bomba
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