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<html><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here is a nuclear bomb simulator - pick a city and size of bomb. Largest bombs in circulation appear to be around 1 megaton TNT equivalent (MT) and 5 MT. Largest test ever was 50 MT. Nagasaki was 20 kiloton. <a href="https://t.co/AnjptMjdLH">https://t.co/AnjptMjdLH</a></p>— Marcin Jakubowski (@marcin_ose) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcin_ose/status/1502848839857889283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></html> | <html><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here is a nuclear bomb simulator - pick a city and size of bomb. Largest bombs in circulation appear to be around 1 megaton TNT equivalent (MT) and 5 MT. Largest test ever was 50 MT. Nagasaki was 20 kiloton. <a href="https://t.co/AnjptMjdLH">https://t.co/AnjptMjdLH</a></p>— Marcin Jakubowski (@marcin_ose) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcin_ose/status/1502848839857889283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></html> | ||
=Magnitudes= | |||
*1.2MT destroys (mostly fatal if exposed) 500 sq km. Ex Kiev, or NYC. Same. | |||
*200 million square miles total earth area - land area of earth is about 150 million sq km | |||
*To kill everyone (who is exposed), this would required 300,000 bombs of 1.2MT magnitude | |||
Revision as of 00:18, 15 March 2022
Destruction radius:
Here is a nuclear bomb simulator - pick a city and size of bomb. Largest bombs in circulation appear to be around 1 megaton TNT equivalent (MT) and 5 MT. Largest test ever was 50 MT. Nagasaki was 20 kiloton. https://t.co/AnjptMjdLH
— Marcin Jakubowski (@marcin_ose) March 13, 2022
Magnitudes
- 1.2MT destroys (mostly fatal if exposed) 500 sq km. Ex Kiev, or NYC. Same.
- 200 million square miles total earth area - land area of earth is about 150 million sq km
- To kill everyone (who is exposed), this would required 300,000 bombs of 1.2MT magnitude