Fact check
Is it true: Tunguska event: 1908 Siberia meteor vs Tesla-weapon vs comet?
No — this has been debunked.
Multiple scientific expeditions (1927 Kulik, 1961 Sedov, 1976 Soviet, 2009 Anfinogenov spheres, 2013 Kvasnytsya nanodiamonds) consistently support a stony asteroid/comet air burst of 10-15 megatons at altitude. The absence of a crater is explained by the air burst model. Tesla-weapon hypothesis has no documentary, physical, or technical basis. Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower was never completed as a functional directed-energy system.
The claim
On 30 June 1908, a massive explosion flattened approximately 2,150 square kilometres of Siberian taiga near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. The blast, estimated at 10-15 megatons TNT equivalent, left
Key evidence
Tesla-weapon claim: circulates as alternative to accepted science
2,150 sq km of taiga flattened in radial pattern
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