Shalom, Mr Ahmadinejad

[Ironside]

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.

Neutron radiation reduces with a 1000 every 2,5 hours (half-life of about 15 min), so basically any dangerous radiation that spreads (the neutrons are very dangerous in close proximity though, the principle used in neutron bombs) is from the blasting cap, that's a fission nuke for fusion bombs. So the radiation has more to do with the method of blowing the bomb than with the size of the bomb. Should that be 25% of the total radiation, then the 100 megoton nuke would be very dirty.

Like I said, please elaborate your post...


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).

A 100megaton bomb is about 7.3 richter. Basically it's either hitting a critical point on the crust that have a meassurable treshold, is complete bull or the earth crust have been completly raptured, possibly with the whole planet cracking open by every larger meteor strike during earths history. A 400 megaton nuke would wipe out humanity with a vide margin (triggering a earthquake with about 16 on the richter scale).

Simply put, the differances between the 100 one and 50 one are wildly exaggerated. If that's in the offical report, it's plain propaganda.