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I've always thought it illustrative to compare the NUKEMAP results for Little Boy and the Tsar Bomba at Hiroshima. It gives a good indication of just how much m
by cge 12y ago
I've always thought it illustrative to compare the NUKEMAP results for Little Boy and the Tsar Bomba at Hiroshima. It gives a good indication of just how much more destructive and terrifying warheads became: where Little Boy destroyed a city, a 100 Mton Tsar Bomba would have destroyed much of the region, and caused fires on other islands. And for ICBMs, MIRVs meant that even smaller warheads, themselves still vastly larger than Little Boy, could be launched together to have the same or worse destructive effects.
- jacquesm 12y agoI'm pretty sure if the first atomic warheads had been 10 or even 100 times the size they still would have been used. After all they could have dialed down 'Little Boy' (what a crap name for a weapon) to a smaller yield too, or dropped it in a less populated area but did not.