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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (132637)2/13/2001 1:46:42 PM
From: hmaly  Read Replies (1) of 1571003
 
Tim Re..You overestimate the effect of a single nuclear weapon a bit. First of all almost no nuclear weapons are more powerful then 20 megatons. A bomb of that size would destroy a large city and devastate its suburbs. <<<<<

I believe I got that from a Scientific American article I read approx. 15 yrs ago. First of all, hydrogen bombs currently are smaller because mirved missiles do more destruction than I big bomb, but back in the early 60's; either they did exist or quite simply the article was using that as a theoretical example.

<<<<<A 100MT bomb would effect a greater area then a 20MT, but less then 5 times as great because a larger % of the energy would be wasted on overkill in the center. 300 300 KT bombs would have less total yield then the 100MT monster you talk about but would be able to cause a lot more destruction.<<<<<

To say that the area would be completely destroyed would be an exaggeration, but the article pointed out that all of those states would be set on fire if the bomb was exploded high enough; 5 miles, and the fires would be widespread enough to destroy the states. The explosion itself won't destry the states, but the heat generated would; if the bomb is exploded at the right height.
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