Twenty-two megatofs of new life.
The explosion would have been between three and five megatons.
The CSS-4 carried a warhead of four to five megatons.
The Tunguska blast released about four megatons of energy and leveled millions of trees across 825 square miles.
The Soviet warheads often exceeded five megatons, with the largest being a 20- to 25-megaton warhead deployed on the SS-7 Saddler from 1961 to 1980 and a 25-megaton warhead on the SS-9 Scarp, deployed from 1967 to 1982.
In 1954, the United States tested a hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, that yielded an explosion of nearly fifteen megatons and gouged out a crater half a mile in diameter.
If all Canadians lowered their thermostats by just two degrees celsius this winter, it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about four megatons," highlighting how the move would be equivalent to taking around 700,000 cars off roads.
A test of the hydrogen bomb in the Bikini atoll, in 1954, produced a yield of fifteen megatons, three times as great as scientists had predicted, and spread lethal radioactive fallout over hundreds of square miles in the Pacific, some of it affecting American observers miles away from the blast site.
Schlosser says that the explosive force of the warhead on a Titan II is nine megatons, which is three times the force of all the bombs dropped in the Second World War, including the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
… and leave a devastating mark on the world Computer modelling conducted by the US study team found that the 100-bomb conflict would send up five megatons of black carbon, blocking out the sun and reducing the temperature of the Earth by up to 2F in just one year.
