So, although most neutrons are absorbed by the casing in a 1-megaton bomb, in a 1-kiloton bomb they would mostly escape.
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The largest is roughly equivalent in size and yield to the 15-kiloton bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
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Izvestia said the 0 . 3-kiloton bomb, a relatively small device, contains about one kilogram ( 2 . 2 pounds ) of plutonium.
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And according to Time, a 10-kiloton bomb detonated in Lower Manhattan would kill or sicken 800, 000 people and destroy everything within a half-mile.
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The efficiency and miniaturization of weapons continued with terrain-hugging cruise missiles and a 58-pound, 1-kiloton bomb that could be carried by a single soldier.
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It said a 10-kiloton bomb detonated in Lower Manhattan would kill 100, 000 people, sicken 700, 000 with radiation and flatten everything within a half-mile.
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Lebed described the devices as 1-kiloton bombs designed for sabotage behind enemy lines and capable of killing up 50, 000 to 100, 000 people each.
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In fact, an underground test detonation of a 2.3-kiloton bomb 52 meters deep several years ago contaminated a 2.5-kilometer radius of the area with high-level radioactivity.
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The need for ET . 317 warheads for UK Polaris was urgent and development of the Improved Kiloton Bomb was temporarily halted until the Polaris warhead programme was completed.
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In 2008 it became publicly known that the shelter would have just about withstood the detonation of a 20 kiloton bomb, comparable to the destructive force of the Hiroshima bomb.
