In Russia it was called "Kuzkina Mat" (literally translated - mother of a man called Kuzma), a name derivated from idiomatic expression "pokazat Kuzkinu mat" (to show Kuzma's mother, to give smb. his gruel). Khruchev used it at some international conference (I guess the one where he was hitting the table with his boot) in reply at some suggestion of action or action aimed againsted USSR. In a month after the conference this nuclear beast was blown and it was made purely to demonstrate the power of USSR then and it most of the witty people summed up a and b, so the bomb got a new name. And the blast wave went around the globe for one time at least.
Jackal, I guess no. This image seems to date back to the beginning of the 20th century