From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 05:19:41 MDT
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Lee Corbin wrote:
>Anyway, your 1.07 x 10^13 joules works out to about .0027
>megaton, or 2.7 thousand tons of TNT. The little Hiroshima
>bomb was 5,000 kilo-tons, I believe.
That would be 5 megatons, which is way too much, I believe.
At this address
http://www.chandrella.org/documents/nuclear/Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki.shtml
I find a suprisingly low quote of 15 kilotons. The Nagasaki bomb was a bit
bigger, 21 kilotons.
One would wonder what a megaton-sized bomb would do to a modern city.
Ciao,
Alfio
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