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Originally Posted by spittle8
Yep. Well, that's an awesome link. I didn't realize a 2 megaton bomb wouldn't only knock out half of the Seattle that I knew. That's amazing.
A 1 kt bomb isn't taking 1/4 of D.C., that's not what it shows. Most of the blast is in the yellow zone; those guys won't all die, and their buildings will apparently have a good chance at surviving. Cool link!
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The yellow circle will blow row houses and unreinforced structures(where all the poor people in DC live in massively dense conditions) to bits.
"Yellow Circle: Moderate damage to buildings causing some risk to people due to flying debris is caused by the blast wave in this region."
Moderate damage to buildings is based on modern structures using up to code construction.
Most of DC(beyond the historic area) falls well short of that level of hardiness. In LA for example where they do have good earthquake proof buildings very little damage would be done in the yellow zone. DC...another matter entirely(that's why i used DC as an example to begin with).
Here's another handy nuke calculation tool:
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Nuke.html
Input Weapon Yield
Yield (megatons): .01 (1kt)
Calculated Values
Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns) : 1.8 Km
Air blast radius (widespread destruction): 1.6 Km
Air blast radius (near-total fatalities): 599 meters
Ionizing radiation radius (500 rem) : 1.3 Km
Fireball duration: 0.6 seconds
Fireball radius (minimum): 70
Fireball radius (airburst): 80
Fireball radius (ground-contact airburst): 110
That one lets you input all different sizes.
By this point, i expect Pakistan should be able to make weapons of at least 20kt in yield.