Shalom, Mr Ahmadinejad

[Aemilius Paulus]

Posting only because you have mentioned a preference of statistics.

100/2=50 megaton = half of Russia crippled with the fallout. (The reduced radiation comes from scrapping the uranium to lead in the final blasting cap. A pure fusion bomb is fairly clean, only neutron decay from the blast)

Sorry, but I do not understand you point well... what are you saying? You seem to be repeating my post:
Take the Tsar Bomba, which had a maximum yield of over 100 megatons, but had its uranium tamper replaced with a lead one to reduce its explosive power by half, downgrading it to 50 megatons, but at the same time made Tsar Bomba the cleanest and most efficient fusion or fission armament ever designed and/or tested.

Even as clean as most fusion designs are, the Tsar Bomba was expected to release momentous amounts of radiation, like I said, 25% of all the atomic tests ever conducted (roughly reported and estimated ~2600 nuclear devices – 2430 fully confirmed). Now, I am no physicist. Neither are you, or at least not a nuclear physicist. I see no reason why an official statement by the Soviet scientists, backed up by the American counterparts is not valid. If they say the radiation would have laid waste to much of Russia, then it must have had substantial amount of truth in it.



Like I said, please elaborate your post...

50*2 = triggering a 16.000 times stronger earthquake.

100 megaton triggering a seismic energy yield of 1.000.000 megaton (10 Richter).

Once again, what is your point? My apologies, but I do not see it (no, I am not sarcastic, I honestly did not understand your post).

[QUOTE=Ironside;2354108]Fair enough, the 50 megaton one is equal to about 7,1 Richter, but I would say that getting hit by the nuke is a bit worse than the following ground shockwave. ¨

The point of blowing it in the air is exactly that, because hitting the ground is severly weaking the blast, thus effiency.

Of course, I know that. An air burst utilises the ordnance’s blast most efficiently, but that is not always the goal. The 50 megaton did equal 7.1 Richter. I am citing the official reports, not my own reckoning. A 100 megaton bomb would have created a catastrophic earthquake, although due to the logarithmic scale of Richter I am cannot say what would be the power of a 100-megaton bomb – I have no desire to perform calculations now.