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Tsar bomba was detuned to 50 Mega tons from 100. The US deployed 25 MT bombs. Modern nukes are smaller because the delivery systems are better (a MIRV with ten
by tagoregrtst 5y ago
Tsar bomba was detuned to 50 Mega tons from 100. The US deployed 25 MT bombs. Modern nukes are smaller because the delivery systems are better (a MIRV with ten 1 MT does more damage and is more reliable that a single 25 MT warhead)
Honest Q: in geological standards, was this even a big blast?
- Merad 5y agoVolcanic eruptions are rated on a logarithmic scale from 1 to 8. It looks like there hasn't been a formal rating assigned to Tonga yet, but it's believed to be the largest of the 21st century so far, and there was already a VEI 5 in 2011. A VEI 8 is the eruption of a super volcano like the Yellowstone caldera, so obviously it would make Tonga look like a firecracker in comparison. If you consider asteroid impacts as geological events then they can be substantially larger.