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Originally Posted by Caligari
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.
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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