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To: Kaslin

Ton, kiloton... whatever. /s


4 posted on 04/15/2017 11:42:14 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Ray76
I guess size really does matter.

Look at that graphic. A MOAB is three times bigger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

10 posted on 04/15/2017 12:07:50 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: Ray76

My father was a member of Task Force 132.4 at Eniwetok Atoll, Operation Ivy. He witnessed the detonation of Ivy Mike and Ivy King. Ivy King was the largest yield to date fission bomb. Ivy Mike was the very first fussion device measured in megatons, not kilotons. I say device because it was not a deliverable ordinance. It was a “wet” device using liquid hydrogen housed in a huge building on one of the islands of the atoll. The firing mechanism spanned 2 islands. I have most of his documentation from that time. Even a leather patch that a militaria dealer was stumped with. He’d never seen anything like it.


33 posted on 04/15/2017 6:38:40 PM PDT by Antoninus II (q)
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To: Ray76
Ton, kiloton... whatever. /s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3kxAA2L4Q

48 posted on 04/16/2017 4:41:08 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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