On 2 June 2014 17:36, Sean Breheny <shb7@cornell.edu> wrote:

> Wikipedia says 50Mt was the actual yield and that it would have been 100M=
t
> had they not reduced it:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
>
> OK. I knew it was a factor of 2 - but I went the wrong way.

Try another from memory :-).
Starfish Prime was about 25 MT and the largest the US made.
About 25% more yield than expected.
Led to a most unlucky "Luck Dragon" and beautiful sunsets in N.


          Russell
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