I hear about the strength of bombs being described in terms of TNT so I was wondering if it’s actually equivalent. Excluding any side effects like poisoning or radiation, if you detonate a bomb, then simultaneously detonate two bombs with half the strength, would they be the same?
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Dresden Germany –
Incendiary bombs killed 25,000 people (officially) and turned the city to a column of flame.
The goal (in Vonnegut and Dyson’s view) was to see if traditional bombs could level a city… 3900 tons of high explosives were dropped from planes!
Answer: It leveled the city pretty good.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
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