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VoraciousFungi t1_iuedz5q wrote

Always wondered, how does "destructiveness" scale with megatons? Will 1 megaton destroy half of what a 2 megaton bomb would? Like is it linear?

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685327593 t1_iuef96t wrote

No, the larger the bomb the more the energy is wasted. That's why no deployed nukes are this large. The three large bombs listed above were all experiments, not actual weapons. It's far more efficient to lob multiple smaller warheads to cover the same area.

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