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To: Red Badger

A Hiroshima/Nagasaki type atomic bomb is about 25-30 Kt (kilotons of TNT). So 25 x 40 = 1000 Kt, to a maximum of 1200 Kt.


4 posted on 10/25/2025 5:04:53 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Stare too long into the dachshund and the dachshund stares back.")
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
"A Hiroshima/Nagasaki type atomic bomb is about 25-30 Kt....

Nope.

Little Boy ... exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy

"Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) ... released the energy equivalent to the detonation of 21 kilotons of TNT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man

5 posted on 10/25/2025 5:20:01 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

No, Hiroshima was 15-20k at most, Nagasaki the same


12 posted on 10/25/2025 7:28:13 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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