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To: WxMan2000
How large (MT) are those suit case bombs that are potentially floating around?
51 posted on 10/31/2001 12:06:38 PM PST by Cornbread
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To: Cornbread
>How large (MT) are those suit case bombs that are
>potentially floating around?

The Hiroshima bomb was 20 kilotons. That compares to the 1000 kiloton, or 1 megaton, the mapping program uses.

An American 'back pack nuke' had a variable yield of a 0.1 kilotons to 5 kilotons. It was actually transported as three seperate man carried load and was assembled on-site. (We used shielding on the nuclear material.)

60 posted on 10/31/2001 12:35:59 PM PST by Dark Wing
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