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To: tanknetter

Very impressive blast when you realize that the thing on the side of the mushroom is a battleship pointed straight up.


40 posted on 03/02/2015 8:46:48 AM PST by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: Pecos

It was a plutonium fission detonation via implosion. Yield was around 20 kilotons (20,000 tons).

Castle Bravo was 15 megatons (15,000,000 tons)

Had the USS Arkansas been in the same location for a 15 megaton shot it would have ended up, mostly, in the stratosphere. As highly radioactive particles.


41 posted on 03/02/2015 8:53:06 AM PST by tanknetter
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