[vannrox]

With all the talk about the possible use of Nuclear weapons by eith the USA or Iraq, I found that this site gave a most balanced apprasial of weapons capabilities. Especially as far as the largest nuclear bomb possible, and the relative sizes of the ones used during World War II.

[inquest]

Except Iraq wouldn't have access to the multi-megaton devices described here. Those are hydro's. They'll only have access to fission devices, the largest of which I think is only half a megaton.

[rederic]

Actually, the Novaya Zemlya bomb of October 30, 1961 was more like a 100 megaton bomb. Maybe to keep things from getting completly out of hand the last stage was "denatured."
Rederic

[struwwelpeter]

Any ideas what nukes would do to, oh, say.. black stone buildings holding meteorites?

[spetznaz]

Big boom ping!

[Condorman]

Interesting Big Bomb stuff, but what about the application and capabilities of small, low-yield tactical, rather than strategic, nuclear devices-- battlefield nukes like the ones deployed (but, my understanding, never used) by the South Africa Army during the Namibian War.