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Originally Posted by capnhowdy
This bomb was a joke compared to what could happen now. Really scary.
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True.
To put it in a perspective from my personal experience:
1) the weapon used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now used as the detonators for our present weapons
2) today's weapons are so prodigious that a Trident ICBM submarine, one vessel in the whole fleet carries twice the firepower expended in all of WWII, including all of the nuclear weapons dropped as well as the test detonations.
The Trident II missile carries 8 MIRVs with 100 kt of explosive capacity, whereas Little Boy yielded 13 kt.
And just to add to the
factor, any submarine can launch a Tomahawk (TLAM-N) with a payload of up to 200 kt, not to mention air launch, surface craft and so on.