Doesn’t the ground just absorb about half of the energy? (And become nasty fallout)
Fat Man was tiny by later standards. Sizes have come down again since delivery got really accurate, but even the B61 can be dialed somewhere from 10 or 20 times that yield.
Doesn’t the ground just absorb about half of the energy? (And become nasty fallout)
Fat Man was tiny by later standards. Sizes have come down again since delivery got really accurate, but even the B61 can be dialed somewhere from 10 or 20 times that yield.
It absorbs a lot, and it channels a lot of the blast up.
Yes, but also its not easy to smuggle a large bomb either.