"The Beirut blast was less than 2% the size of the Hiroshima bomb"

[Renew Deal]

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The B83 nuclear warhead, the largest in the current U.S. arsenal, has 80 times the explosive power of Hiroshima's Little Boy, at 1.2 million tons of TNT equivalent.

The death toll is of a different magnitude as well. As of Wednesday afternoon at least 135 people had been killed by the Beirut blast. At the low end of estimates, 70,000 people were killed at Hiroshima.
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https://www.axios.com/beirut-nuclear-bomb-lebanon-bdec100d-20f5-451c-812a-d0d91c5da4e9.html

[Happy Hoosier]

1. I saw another estimate....

That put the equivalent blast at 2 kilotons. Quite the disparity there. At 2 kilotons, the blast would be about 12% of Hiroshima. That seems rightish to me based in what I saw. 50 time more powerful seems off, but I am not an expert.

[ZZenith]

2. Or, taken another way...

“Holy shit! That thing was two percent of Little Man!”

Thank Gawd it wasn’t detonated 2000 feet above Beirut.

[DBoon]

3. Ammonium Nitrate doesn't release deadly radiation

There is more to a nuclear weapon's death toll than the size of the blast