[jeltz25]

well, keep in mind, the Hiroshima bomb was around 15kt or so. Today we have bombs that are way more powerful, or at least I think we do. We have H Bombs, MIRVs, thermonuclear, etc... We have yields ion the megaton range. kt is 1000 tons, mt is 1000000 tons, so some of the bombs we have today are.

Our largest yield is apparently the B83 that has 1.2MT or 1200kt yield. That’s 80X more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.

So, the bombs today would probably take out way more than 166,000 per warhead. If you multiply it by 80, you get around 13M, enough to say goodbye to Beijing.

[GonzoGOP]

Our largest yield is apparently the B83 that has 1.2MT or 1200kt yield. That’s 80X more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb

True, but the most common weapons in the arsenal is the W-80 (aprox 2100 @ 170kt), Mk-61 (aprox 1350 @ 80kt) and the W-62 (600 @ 170kt) are not 80 times the size of the Nagasaki bomb, but are only 4 to 7 times the 25kt of the Fat Man. With only 5000 total weapons these smaller weapons make up over 60% of our stockpile.