• skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    3 months ago

    one kiloton is defined as 10^12 cal or 10^9 kcal

    even advanced single stage nukes use up only something like 60% of fissile material so for modern 20kt-ish nuke you’re spot on