Editing Tsar Bomba (section)

== Name ==
The bomb was officially known as "product 602" ({{lang|ru|изделие 602}}) or "AN602", and codenamed "Ivan".<ref name="Бомбы с ласковыми именами">{{cite web|url=https://nvo.ng.ru/armament/2005-06-10/1_bombs.html |title=Бомбы с ласковыми именами |access-date=10 December 2020}}</ref> The usage of different names can be a source of confusion. The Tsar Bomba, being a modification of (the) [[#Product 202|RN202]], is sometimes mistakenly labelled as RDS-37, RDS-202 or PH202 (product 202).<ref name="Veselov, A.V. 2006 7"/>

Unofficially, the bomb would later become known as "Tsar Bomba" and "[[Kuzma's mother|Kuzka's mother]]" ({{lang|ru|Кузькина мать}}, {{transliteration|ru|Kuz'kina mat'}}). The name Tsar Bomba (loosely translated as ''Emperor of Bombs'') comes from an allusion to two other Russian historical artifacts, the [[Tsar Cannon]] and the [[Tsar Bell]], both of which were created as showpieces but whose large size made them impractical for use. The name "Tsar Bomba" does not seem to have been used for the weapon prior to the 1990s.<ref name="wellerstein">{{cite journal |last=Wellerstein |first=Alex |year=2021 |title=The untold story of the world's biggest nuclear bomb |url=https://thebulletin.org/2021/11/the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-biggest-nuclear-bomb/ |journal=The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists}}</ref> The name "Kuzka's Mother" was inspired by the statement of Khrushchev to then US Vice President [[Richard Nixon]]: "We have funds at our disposal that will have dire consequences for you. We will show you Kuzka's mother!"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ria.ru/20150818/1192808216.html |title=Росатом покажет "Кузькину мать" на выставке в Москве |newspaper=Риа Новости |date=18 August 2015 |access-date= 10 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev |volume=3: Statesman (1953–1964) |author=Nikita Khrushchev |author-link=Nikita Khrushchev |publisher=The Pennsylvania State University Press |editor=Sergei Khrushchev |editor-link=Sergei Khrushchev |location=University Park, PA |page=292}}</ref>

The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) designated the test as "JOE 111" using their "JOE" counting scheme, which had begun with [[RDS-1]] in 1949.<ref name="CIA">{{cite report |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |series=[[National Intelligence Estimate]] |volume=11-2A-62 |url=http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000843187.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000843187.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Soviet Atomic Energy Program |date=16 May 1962 |pages=2, 13}}</ref>