| 21. | Fifteen kilotons is about the force of the nuclear bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
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| 22. | It occurred in Kazakhstan, a plutonium bomb that measured roughly 25 kilotons.
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| 23. | The Hiroshima bomb, which used uranium, was 12 to 17 kilotons.
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| 24. | Estimates of the bomb's size ranged from 20 to 200 kilotons.
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| 25. | Jean Lichere said Friday the blast will be 75 kilotons to 150 kilotons.
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| 26. | Jean Lichere said Friday the blast will be 75 kilotons to 150 kilotons.
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| 27. | It said the blast was equal to 40 kilotons.
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| 28. | Both were believed to be 18-kiloton devices.
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| 29. | A kiloton is the equivalent of 1, 000 pounds of high explosives.
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| 30. | The actual power of the explosion had been between 20 and 22 kilotons.
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