250 kilotons sounds a lot like a staged Teller-Ulam nuclear design
http://www.38north.org/2017/09/punggye091217/ …
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Not like that extra 100kt gives you that much more. Barely another 50,000 prompt dead!pic.twitter.com/23AYV2on8P
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Remember the mantra: to double the (blast) damage, you need to increase the yield by a factor of 8. Easy rule of thumb for the cubic root...
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That's my go to at the [REDACTED!] it's easier with visual aids. How's traffic to nukemap doing with all the ongoing excitement?
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It has settled back down to "normal" levels but the new "normal" is about 1.5X what it used to be (~30K users/day).
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