[the 8km wide fireball created by the Tsar Bomba] https://web.archive.org/web/20081117095628im_/http://www.atomicforum.org/russia/tsar01.jpg https://web.archive

[the 8km wide fireball created by the Tsar Bomba] https://web.archive.org/web/20081117095628im_/http://www.atomicforum.org/russia/tsar01.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20081117095628im_/http://www.ato... Depictions of the Tsar Bomba usually focus on the huge mushroom cloud, which is awesome (in the original "causing awe or terror" meaning of the word). However, I think the geometric simplicity of the fireball is even more effective at inspiring awe. For a brief moment, the sky was filled with the light of a human-made star.