Andrei Durnovtsev
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1923 –
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Who is Andrei Durnovtsev?
Andrei E. Durnovtsev was a major of the Soviet Air Force. He dropped the Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961. He flew a specially modified Tu-95V which utilized special white paint to reflect the enormous amount of heat radiation given off by the Tsar Bomba's fusion reaction.
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