A 100 kiloton bomb dropped on Capitol Hill would kill an estimated 177,650 people instantly and injure more than 383,210, with 21% of the Washington D.C.’s population in the blast range.

One of the first measurements to get accustomed to is the kiloton, or 1,000 tons. The explosive yield of most nuclear weapons is expressed in kilotons of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, otherwise known as ...

A 100 kiloton bomb dropped on Capitol Hill would kill an estimated 177,650 people instantly and injure more than 383,210, with 21% of the Washington D.C.’s population in the blast range.

Commentary: Atomic veteran’s experience with 31-kiloton nuke is worth recalling as ‘Doomsday Clock’ resets Ray Calloway holds up a notebook with a sketch of an atomic blast he witnessed in 1952.

It was completed as part of collaborative partnerships between Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, the Kansas City National Security Campus, Pantex Plant, Y-12 National Security Complex ...

What it was: A 74-kiloton thermonuclear device was dropped from a balloon, sending an atomic cloud 49,000 feet into the air, as part of the largest above-ground test at the site.

Project Plowshare's first underground test was Project Gnome in New Mexico, conducted in 1961. A 3.1-kiloton weapon was detonated 1,115 ft underground, creating a 99,000 cubic-ft cavern.

The online tool NukeMap suggests that a 20-kiloton attack on Kyiv would kill more than 31,000 people and injure another 65,000 within 24 hours. Even those numbers may be a big underestimation.