The bomb was built and eventually tested on October 30, 1961, on the west coast of Novaya Zemlya Island (Arctic Sea).
Estimated to have had a yield of 50,000,000 TONS of TNT.
Heat from the explosion was enough to cause 3rd degree burns 62 miles away.
Mushroom cloud was nearly 7 times taller than Mt. Everest (~40 miles).
The seismic shock from the blast could be measured on its third passage around the Earth.
The fireball from the explosion was nearly 5 miles in diameter:
*According to its Wiki (seems legit for what little math I did): the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 39 nanoseconds, was about 5.4 yottawatts (5.4 X 10^24), equivalent to about 1.4% of the power output of the sun.
A comparison to other notable bombs:
Here's something fun. Type your address or any address that you can find on google maps, and drop a bomb there and see how big the blast and fallout is:
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