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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Yes, that’s why weight equivalent of TNT is used as a measurement. What we are actually describing is the amount of energy released in the explosion. This is a function of the chemistry of the explosive used (or the physics of the nuclear explosion). Instead of equivalent weight of TNT, we could just as easily describe explosions in units of energy just as joules.
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