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To: RightWhale
".2 kilotons is way small for a city buster."

The area mentioned is only about 6.2 miles square. Not very big! Not sure how that relates to Nagasaki area and size.

47 posted on 06/09/2003 7:04:36 PM PDT by lawdude (Liberalism: A failure every time it is tried.)
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To: lawdude
6.2 miles square. Not very big! Not sure how that relates to Nagasaki area and size.

It would take a megaton range nukebomb to flatten a township, and of course there are degrees of lesser damage farther out. Townships are 6 by 6 miles. This meteor was apparently 5000 times smaller than a megaton. Or one five-thousandth as big depending on your politics. Neither Nagasaki nor Hiroshima were totally destroyed by the nukebombs, although devastation was essentially complete inside a certain radius.

64 posted on 06/10/2003 10:10:14 AM PDT by RightWhale (gazing at shadows)
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