Sentences with phrase «kiloton weapon»

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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.

North Korea may be capable of launching a miniaturized thermonuclear weapon that yields 100 kilotons of blast energy.

However, it's not unlikely when looking at weapons like the new B61 - 12 gravity bomb, which is built by the US, maxes out at 50 kilotons, and can be dialed down to 0.3 kilotons.

That's as much explosive power as a tactical - grade nuclear weapon — around 1.8 kilotons.

It features a «dial - a-yield» capability - setting the weapons to deliver as much as 340 kilotons (depending on the version), about 20 times the power of the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki.

Thomas Cochran, senior scientist at the NRDC and one of the report's authors, says a 1 - kiloton bomb could be made with as little as 1 kilogram of plutonium from designs developed by American weapons researchers in the 1950s and described in technical reports that are no longer classified.

Subsequent testing has shown that not to be the case, at least in the opinion of many physicists — many highly respected physicists — and so the supporters of the RRW have moved onto other rationales for why we would need these including margin, which is your, I guess, confidence, that a nuclear weapon will explode as it is intended to; it will deliver exactly, say ten kilotons of destructive force or one megaton or whatever the desired explosive force is.

A nuclear exchange involving 100 15 - kiloton, Hiroshima - type weapons is only 0.03 percent of the total explosive power of the world's nuclear arsenal, he said.