In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:56:04 -0400: Hi,
If all the fission energy in 20 lb. of Pu239 were released it would be over 175000 tons of TNT. If the bomb only yields 20 tons it is incredibly inefficient. I would expect more like 20000 tons. >H LV <[email protected]> wrote: > >The smallest nuke was the Davy Crockett weighing 76 lbs with an explosive >> yield of 20 Tons of TNT. >> > >That's small! The critical mass of Pu is around 20 lb. 56 lbs of other >hardware. > >What an idiotic weapon. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk local asymmetry = temporary success
