I just finished watching a documentary on the biggest bomb ever made, it was called the Tsar bomb, 50 megatons, Kruschev ordered it built to send a message in retort to Eisenhower's nuclear build up
Actual photo of detonation
Here's the pdf of the declassified top secret document President Eisenhower had drafted and he signed in which
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Allowed Secretary of Defense and subsequently ranking commanders, including military officers, to order nuclear retaliation in emergency .
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http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key...delegation.pdf