Testimony by York from 1963, explaining to a Senator that 50 Mt is, indeed, equivalent to 50 million tons of dynamitepic.twitter.com/ow3et7Uds8
@wellerstein Weird for him to the get the Hiroshima yield so wrong though — a slip of the cog perhaps induced by testifying before Congress?
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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 16kt Little Boy? -
@InspiredbyJB The final official estimate for Hiroshima was 15±3 kilotons: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00313791.pdf … -
@wellerstein Phenomenal destruction. Very strange York gave wrong figure though.
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