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Old 05-25-2010, 09:52 AM  
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Originally Posted by Caligari View Post
I believe the original hiroshima nuke was a one ton bomb. Of course a mega ton is 1000 times the size and we are talking 10 and 20 mega ton bombs. US has some 50 mega ton bombs.
Google is your friend.

"Nuke tons" are not the weight of the bomb but the explosive power of the bomb
expressed as the equivalent of TNT.

A 1 ton nuke would be like dropping 1 ton on TNT(dynamite).

Doesn't it seem stupid to go through all the trouble to build a nuke when you can
just drop a fucking box of TNT weighing a ton?

Doesn't it also seem completely stupid that we have a plane that could actually
get off the fucking ground with something in it that weighed 50 Mega tons?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy

The Hiroshima bomb :
It exploded with a destructive power equivalent to between 13 and 18 kilotons of TNT
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