What were the effects of the heavy atmospheric nuclear testing done in the 40s, 50s and 60s on life on earth? The Tsar Bomba alone had to create some seriously irreversible fallout damage for most of the planet, right?

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What were the effects of the heavy atmospheric nuclear testing done in the 40s, 50s and 60s on life on earth? The Tsar Bomba alone had to create some seriously irreversible fallout damage for most of the planet, right?

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Tsar bomba actually didn’t produce all that much fallout compared to smaller nukes. For one it was an airburst, which limits the amount of fallout created and dispersed, and on top of that most of its explosive energy came from a fusion reaction which again doesn’t produce much fallout. Tsar bomba was a surprisingly clean bomb.