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Topic	How big was the MOAB compared to the Nuke we dropped on Japan?
PrettyBoyFloyd 04/13/17 6:12:41 PM #22:	ChromaticAngel posted... butthole666 posted... ChromaticAngel posted... The Tsar Bomba had a 100 Megaton Payload when it was originally architected but they dialed it back down to about 50 megatons because the plane they were going to drop it out of wouldn't be able to get out of the blast radius of the 100 megaton version. By the way, you only need a few kilotons to level a whole city. I vaguely recall reading that the full payload would have cracked the earth's crust or some insane shit like that The earth's crust is extremely thick. While it is the "thinnest layer" it is still so fucking thick that we drill over 10km to get to oil and still don't get anywhere close to piercing all the way through to the mantle. I always heard that they thought it might burn up the atmosphere... side from also killing the poor guys that dropped it. --- The Evil Republicans - Est.2004 - WoT [Government Destabilizing Branch] <cite>PrettyBoyFloyd posted [p:877140291] in How big wa... [t:75234148]...</cite> <quote><cite>ChromaticAngel posted...</cite> <quote><cite>butthole666 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ChromaticAngel posted...</cite> <quote>The Tsar Bomba had a 100 Megaton Payload when it was originally architected but they dialed it back down to about 50 megatons because the plane they were going to drop it out of wouldn't be able to get out of the blast radius of the 100 megaton version. By the way, you only need a few kilotons to level a whole city.</quote> I vaguely recall reading that the full payload would have cracked the earth's crust or some insane shit like that</quote> The earth's crust is extremely thick. While it is the "thinnest layer" it is still so fucking thick that we drill over 10km to get to oil and still don't get anywhere close to piercing all the way through to the mantle.</quote> I always heard that they thought it might burn up the atmosphere... side from also killing the poor guys that dropped it. --- The Evil Republicans - Est.2004 - WoT [Government Destabilizing Branch]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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