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I had to use a real book to get this- for Hiroshima, in the inner circle, 0 to .6 miles, there were 31200 people and 26700 died, or 86%. Within a radius of 0 to 1.6 miles from hypocenter, there were 176,000 people. Of those, 48,500 died from the atomic bomb, or about 30%.

In the next ring, from 1.6 miles to 3.1 miles there were 80,300 people and 1700 killed, or about 2% killed.

Overall, within 3.1 miles, the percent killed was 26%.

Hiroshima was ~21 kilotons, or 21,000 tons TNT eq, and the Russian Cousin of All Big Booms here is 11 tons equivalent, yet they are claiming superior performance to the Hiroshima device.

While I have the greatest respect for the Russian people, I fear that this report misrepresents the facts, so I say

Bravo Sierra.

It's a different kind of bomb ~ plus, they've had plenty of time to enhance its lethality.

Given the same amount of time we'd have improved on our first atom bombs and made them much more lethal, or damaging, or whatever.

Time marches on and science progresses.

I read the article to claim a three-mile diameter of destruction -- not a three-mile radius...

In any case, I'd class it as a genuine "WMD"...