When nukes stop being about the M.A.D. concept and more about being a propaganda tool... It was designed to shock. And it surely did. Soon after the detonation,

When nukes stop being about the M.A.D. concept and more about being a propaganda tool... It was designed to shock. And it surely did. Soon after the detonation, Andrei Sakharov himself (behind the Soviet "Third Idea" nuclear weapon design) began speaking out against nuclear weapons and became a Soviet dissident.