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Xanthro
Godot, you are pretty dumb
You're the one who claimed the biggest available nukes - now going up to 100-megatons - couldn't take out a medium-sized city, when the bomb that took out Hiroshima was only 20 kilotons a tiny nuke by modern standards.
There has never been a 100 megaton warhead actually made or tested. It is believed that Tzar Bomba with a different triggering mechanism could have possible reached this yield.
Currently, there are no weapons with a yield great than 15 megatons.
The largest device actually ever made, had a fireball blast of less that 3km. Hardly enough to obliterate a medium sized city.
Hiroshima was hardly taken out, about 1 in 4 people died, and that includes a four month post bombing period where people died from lack of health care access. Sure, most buildings were damage, estimates up to 90%, but the actual death percentage is much lower than is in the popular mind.
You are going by the myths in the popular imagination, which is simply incorrect.
If you want to be humiliated in detail, just ask.
-- Godot...
Detail is not your strong suit. It's obvious, you are hardly familiar with the subject matter, much less the history behind it.
