He throws his cigarette butt toward them and it explodes against the asphalt like a bomb sized for insects.
Bomb sizes have ranged from less than 100 grams (just over three ounces) in the case of the so-called underwear bomber, who attempted to bring down an airliner in the United States in 2009, to more than one ton in a car bombing that killed more than 200 people in Bali, Indon., in 2002.
The episode shows how the system that warns of missile attack and clandestine nuclear blasts is fast evolving to detect bomb-size meteors as well.
Within a decade Iter aims to control a hydrogen bomb-sized atomic reaction for a few minutes.
Scoria is bomb-sized, generally vesicular pyroclastic rock with basaltic composition, which is reddish brown to black in color and is of low density (Fig. 2).
A hafnium bomb the size of a hand grenade could have the force of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
Depending on the skill of the designers and builders, it takes as little as 5 kilograms to make a bomb the size of the one that destroyed Hiroshima, experts say.
It looks as if the North could fit a nuclear bomb the size of a garbage can to one of those missiles, though whether it could survive re-entry is another matter.
Then one day, Mr. Ariga recalled, an officer finally explained what they were after: "With the stones that you boys are digging up, we can make a bomb the size of a matchbox that will destroy all of New York".
Behind the berm, deep in underground bunkers, the Iraqis have now admitted, scientists came close, in the months before the Persian Gulf war in 1991, to building at least one atomic bomb the size of the one used on Nagasaki in 1945.
FIVE years ago, at roughly 4 30 p.m. on Aug. 19, 2003, in Baghdad, a suicide bomber in a flatbed truck pulled up outside the lightly fortified office of the United Nations's leading diplomat, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and detonated a cone-shaped bomb the size of a large man.
