History Fragments | Real Historical Footage on Instagram: "The explosion that reshaped global power 1955. Soviet Union. The USSR conducted a test that permanently changed the global balance of power — the detonation of its first two-stage thermonuclear bomb, known as RDS-37. The bomb was dropped from a Tu-16 bomber over the Semipalatinsk test site. Estimated yield: around 1.6 megatons — more than 100 times the power of Hiroshima. The mission nearly failed. Heavy cloud cover forced the aircraft t