Come on now - ask yourself if you even makes sense.
Hiroshima =~15 kilotons
Nagasaki =~20 kilotons
1 MIRV W88 at 475 kilotons (eg half a megaton) =~ 32 times Hiroshima yield. Yes, half a megaton is in the megaton class range rube.
Good luck with your new math on other projects though..
Hiroshima =~15 kilotons
Nagasaki =~20 kilotons
1 MIRV W88 at 475 kilotons (eg half a megaton) =~ 32 times Hiroshima yield. Yes, half a megaton is in the megaton class range rube.
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You're the one trying to dig out of your hole you dug by claiming the MIRVs were in the megaton range.
"...they face a salvo of Trident MIRV megaton class nuclear weapons..."
Then you tried to advance your argument they were really megaton yields because 475k is really half a megaton....except half a megaton is 500k. However, the yield is discussed as 475kt...not megatons. And 475k is not half of a megaton. 500k is half. Basic math.
Castle Bravo, I presume you know that one, is measured at 15 megatons. They don't report it in terms of kilotons. Same as the Tsar Bomba. It is reported in megatons....not kilotons. Why?
A megaton is equal to 1,000,000 tons of TNT.
A kiloton is equal to 1000 tons of TNT.
What you're missing is the understanding of scale. We're talking scale here.
To continue your "logic" the bombs on Hiroshima /Nagasaki are in the megaton range....just on a smaller scale as is the W88....though neither are reported as a percentage of megatons...except by you.
Please tell me you didn't do anything real complicated in the Air Force.
Have you got your room cleaned up yet??