Viktor Borisovich Adamsky (Russian: Ви́ктор Бори́сович Ада́мский; 30 April 1923 – 14 December 2005) was a Soviet and Russian physicist known for his work on the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.
Viktor Borisovich Adamsky (Russian: Ви́ктор Бори́сович Ада́мский; 30 April 1923 – 14 December 2005) was a Soviet and Russian physicist known for his work on the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons.
The Tsar Bomba (code name: Ivan or Vanya, internal designation "AN602") was the most powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. A project of the Soviet Union, it was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, tested on 30 October 1961 at the Novaya Zemlya site in the country's far north. The bomb yielded 50 megatons of TNT.
The Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov oversaw the project at Arzamas-16, while the main work of design was by Sakharov, Viktor Adamsky, Yuri Babayev, Yuri Smirnov, and Yuri Trutnev. The project was ordered by First Secretary of the Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev in July 1961 as part of the Soviet resumption of nuclear testing after the Test Ban Moratorium, with the detonation timed to coincide with the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).