• culpritus [any]
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    2 days ago

    Out of morbid curiosity, I did some math.

    14,000 Mark 84 bombs each containing 429 kg of Tritonal comes to 6,006,000 kgs.

    Tritonal is approximately 18% more powerful than TNT alone.

    So we multiply by 1.18 to come to TNT equivalence of 7,087,080 kgs divided by 1000 to get metric tons of TNT (7087.08) which is the unit used for nuclear explosive yield.

    the approximate energy released in the detonation of a metric ton (1,000 kilograms) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent

    Using the NukeMap website, you can see the equivalent damage radii of a 7087.08 KiloTon detonation overlaid on any place around the world. https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

    At a unit cost of $16,000, 14k bombs comes to $224,000,000.

    Here is the detonation overlaid on Washington DC: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=7087&lat=38.8946925&lng=-77.0218993&airburst=0&hob_ft=0&psi=20,5,1&zm=11