>I was actually surprised how "small" a lot of the bombs we've used are. I think a lot of people overlook the fact that a majority of nuclear devices were crea

>I was actually surprised how "small" a lot of the bombs we've used are. I think a lot of people overlook the fact that a majority of nuclear devices were created to act as triggers in an even bigger explosion - and those triggers, themselves, can be effectively deployed as a weapon as well as integrated into a higher yield system. The man-portable nuclear arms that are fielded out there right now - can be carried onto the battlefield by a single soldier - started life as trigger components for bigger bombs. A lot of the fuss over strategic nuclear weapons usage in the last 2 decades is as a consequence of nuclear weapons getting smaller, not bigger.