Posted on 05/17/2023 9:55:37 PM PDT by ganeemead
60 kilotons would be an eye opener, though.
Since “Fat Man” was only 21 kt, yes, yes it would be an eye opener.
“Little Boy” was rated at 15 kt, and that would still be an eye opener.
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No, it doesn’t. I often detonates so fast you cannot detect the chain effect. More than a few ammo dumps have been perfectly hit in wars. I actually saw one. And the dump of a hundred torpedoes on Roi-Namur went off in one blast.
P-47 hits an ammo train.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StGjHULRyVA
Anyway, it wasn’t nuclear. If 150 pallets were not carefully dispersed, you can and will get a single blast that humans cannot detect as sympathetic detonation.
Exactly right.
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