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Re:10 times the explosive power of all explosives used in WWII by pooriaazimi on Sunday September 23, 2012 @07:03AM (#4560596)
Keep in mind that they dumbed it down quite a bit! It was 100 Megatons initially but they reduced it to only 50 Megatons "to reduce nuclear fallout (and also to prevent the blast from destroying the drop aircraft)".

It was more that 50 years ago. Now...

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Re:10 times the explosive power of all explosives used in WWII by Greynum on Sunday September 23, 2012 @07:43AM (#4560665)
Actually there is also an atmospheric limitation. I think the Limit is somewhere in-between 50 megatons and 100.

Basically if the explosion was any bigger it would leave the atmosphere into outer space so there is no point in making it any bigger.

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