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Re:The ‘Tsar Bomba’ Was a 50-Megaton Nuke by yarper on Thursday April 02, 2015 @05:31AM (#9309501)
It's not crazy. It's pretty horrifyingly logical. Why have one 100Mt nuke, when you can have a hundred 1Mt nukes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetab...

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Re:The ‘Tsar Bomba’ Was a 50-Megaton Nuke by pcarmichael on Thursday April 02, 2015 @08:39AM (#9310260)
Here are a couple videos of MIRV re-entry tests - basically what it'd look like before having a really bad day. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDTnszCQC0 http://theaviationist.com/2013/12/27/russia-icbm-test-kura/
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Re:The ‘Tsar Bomba’ Was a 50-Megaton Nuke by angdis on Thursday April 02, 2015 @09:07AM (#9310436)
Indeed. I can confirm that after having played Missle Command on the Atari 800 in 1983!
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