Sentences with phrase «kiloton nuclear blast»

As impending disaster meets its fate, a following 75 kiloton nuclear blast throws the world into high alert and sends governments into an international hunt for the parties responsible.

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Greg Spriggs, a nuclear - weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said a 50 - megaton weapon «could possibly induce a tsunami» and hit a shoreline with the energy equivalent to a 650 - kiloton blast.

The scenario assumes a terrorist - caused nuclear blast of about 10 kilotons» worth of TNT or less.

Allison has posted the grim answer on his Web site (www.nuclearterror.org), which shows a three - color «blast map» depicting the effects of a 10 - kiloton bomb, about the smallest a workable nuclear device could be.