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To: NorthMountain

Well, then - I suggest we get cracking!

IIRC, the Russian “Tsar Bomb” was originally designed to be 100MT, but the Russians decided to dial it back to 50MT.

10 posted on 02/27/2019 4:24:05 PM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)

To: JME_FAN

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originally designed to be 100MT

Yeah ... in a rare fit of sanity, they made the casing out of lead instead of uranium, thereby reducing the yield by half.

11 posted on 02/27/2019 7:14:45 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)

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