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A 100-megaton bomb is 5,000 times more powerful than the 20-kiloton bomb that took out Hiroshima, a medium-size city.
Bombs smaller than 100 megatons were tested by the US in the Pacific, and the mushroon clouds could be seen in California 4,000 miles away. They were so huge the generals themselves were appalled.
But I get your propaganda game. Like Rumsfeld, you want people to think that nukes aren't a big deal in order to make them 'acceptable'. Rumsfeld's wanted to nuke Russia for forty years under the theory than 80,000,000 US casualties in the counterstrike would be worth it.
You and Rumsfeld should be sharing Hannibal Lecter's old cell. You're a danger to civilization.
