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We turned a ton of cities into ashes during WWII without the help of nuclear weapons (except at the very end).
by fdsaaf 10y ago
We turned a ton of cities into ashes during WWII without the help of nuclear weapons (except at the very end).
- Johnny555 10y agoThe current nuclear arsenal is over 2000 times greater than all of the munitions used in WWII (including the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent * The total energy of all explosives used in World War Two (including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs) is estimated to have been three megatons of TNT * The total global nuclear arsenal is about 30,000 nuclear warheads with a destructive capacity of 7,000 megatons or 7 gigatons (7,000 million tons) of TNT
- berntb 10y agoFirebombings cause a lot of ash with little boom. And TFA talked about a nuclear winter from burning cities when using a hundred Hiroshima bombs, not the US/Russian arsenal. We ought to have learned about those effects, just from WW II.