Sentence examples for explosive yields from inspiring English sources

In contrast, the primitive bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had explosive yields of 15 kilotons and 22 kilotons, respectively.

New tests, they wrote, could in theory feature "significantly higher explosive yields," helping North Korea advertise its possession of the world's deadliest arms.

The explosive yields of some weapon designs have been further increased by the substitution of highly enriched uranium-235 for uranium-238 in the secondary.

According to Soviet accounts, reported by the National Security Archive, submarine commanders were "rattled enough to talk about firing nuclear torpedoes, whose 15 kiloton explosive yields approximated the bomb that devastated Hiroshima in August 1945".

Iranian officials have refused to answer questions about documents and computer files that suggest Iran has explored how to build a weapon and has researched explosive yields of different nuclear fuels.

In May, Congress approved further research on a new generation of tactical nuclear weapons: bunker busters, designed to drill into underground shelters, buried beneath hundreds of feet of con crete, and so-called mini-nukes with explosive yields of less than five kilotons.

* Seismic monitors measure distant shock waves produced by the explosion (as in measuring earthquakes), in order to arrive at an estimate of explosive yield.

The fuel must be finely machined into a sphere for maximum explosive yield.

The result is a larger explosive yield with smaller amounts of enriched material — more bang for the buck.

The September test was North Korea's largest yet, with an explosive yield equal to about 10 kilotons of TNT.

The explosive yield of atomic bombs is measured in kilotons, each unit of which equals the explosive force of 1,000 tons of TNT.