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To: hmaly who wrote (132635)	2/13/2001 12:06:18 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570818

When you consider that a 100 megaton bomb, exploded 5 miles above Texas would destroy Texas and the five surrounding states, 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. It would have effects beyond that but not effects that would amount to total destruction. 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. Tim