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To: Las Vegas Dave

Over 4 football fields across is sizeable but not an extinction event. Depending on the actual mass and impact speed, it would probably be between the equivilent of about a 40 and a 100 megaton explosion. The biggest nuke ever set off was 100 megatons, by the USSR. Those crazy Russians wiped out a good portion of Siberia just to see how big they could make one.


11 posted on 02/29/2012 2:12:02 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The right thing is not always the popular thing)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Tzar Bomba was 50 MT. It was scalable to 100 but they never tested it.


12 posted on 02/29/2012 3:28:28 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Normie: Wandering Druid, Cult of Palin)
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