Originally Posted by
crbnftprnt
[QUOTE that was at the low end of tac nuke size. QUOTE]
Right. One of the nukes I dealt with in the Army was a 2 kiloton TNT equivalent. This was 2.7 kilotons of basically fertilizer, but they are in the same ballpark.
The crazy thing about nukes is how those low-yield warheads are incredibly bad in terms of radioactivity and outfall, vs. the huge megaton range that has has almost no residual radiation. The cleanest ever was the USSR Tsar bomb, which was tested at only half of it's capability, vs. the smaller tactical nukes that severely poison the environment wherever they happen to be used.