Sentences with phrase «kiloton yield»

If India and Pakistan fired warheads with a kiloton yield — smaller than ours — it would destroy the monsoon weather patterns, devastating the climate in the entire region.

The device tested in 1945 had a 20 kiloton yield, meaning it had the explosive force of 20,000 tons of TNT.

Different sources estimate that North Korea's 2013 nuclear detonation had up to a 10 kilotons yield.

Not exact matches

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

The recently tested bomb is estimated to have an explosive yield of 120 kilotons, which equates to a blast created from 265 million pounds worth of TNT, according to Norsar, a Norwegian geoscience research foundation.

As Franz - Stefan Gady at The Diplomat points out, this means that the Knyaz Vladimir «will be capable of launching 96 - 200 hypersonic, independently maneuverable warheads, yielding 100 - 150 kilotons apiece,» meaning each warhead alone is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

This alarms North Korea's adversaries because the nation recently detonated a thermonuclear device that yielded the energy of perhaps 300 kilotons of TNT — about 20 times as much as the bomb the US detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.

The B61 Mod 12 has a yield of up to 50 kilotons, about one - seventh of earlier versions.

By way of further comparison, the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 was 20 kilotons in yield.

[2] Experts predict the 2013 test is likely to be between 6 and 10 kilotons in yield.

NORSAR, a Norway - based group that monitors nuclear tests, estimated an explosive yield of 120 kilotons, which means the power of 120,000 tons of TNT.

The other two had yields of 12 and 25 kilotons, the service added.

Tesla was a relatively low - yield shot of seven kilotons, dropped from a 300 - foot tower at the government's test site in Nevada on March 1, 1955.

But the NAS report concluded that once the planned International Monitoring System of the CTBT is fully operational (it is about two - thirds complete today), no underground test with an explosive yield of more than one kiloton could «be confidently hidden.»

Analysis of the seismic waves caused by last week's blast put the yield of the warhead tested at between 50 and 100 kilotons.

(3) See NRC 2012 CTBT Report Finding 4 - 6: «With the inclusion of regional monitoring, improved understanding of backgrounds, and proper calibration of stations, an evasive tester in Asia, Europe, North Africa or North America would need to restrict device yield to levels below 1 kiloton (even if the explosion were fully decoupled) to ensure no more than a 10 percent probability of detection for IMS and open monitoring networks», and associated text.

The yield was less than 20 kilotons.