@wellerstein Weird for him to the get the Hiroshima yield so wrong though — a slip of the cog perhaps induced by testifying before Congress?
Testimony by York from 1963, explaining to a Senator that 50 Mt is, indeed, equivalent to 50 million tons of dynamitepic.twitter.com/ow3et7Uds8
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@wellerstein Perhaps a transcription error? -
@Pete_Markov I thought maybe, but the math matches up internally (2 kt is 10,000 times less than 20 Mt), which makes it look like a flub
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@wellerstein Kosta Tsipis once wrote that 1Mt of TNT would fill train 300 miles long. Traveling at 50mph, it would take 6 hours to pass you.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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