Is it just as simple as 50+50=100 or is there something to it?
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In theory yes. If you think of how you can bundle sticks of dynamite together to make a larger bomb the same is true for nuclear bombs as well. However there is a much larger damage potential in two 50 megaton bombs if you manage to place them a bit apart from each other. A lot of energy in a 100 megaton bomb will end up causing damage at ground zero. An are which will likely be saturated with damage beyond what is needed. By placing the two 50 megaton bombs some distance apart the energy will be more evenly distributed over an area. So it will likely cause more damage. They can even work together putting more energy into the intersection between them then could be done by one alone. You can see some of this effect in mining explosions. They tend to drill hundreds of holes and fill each hole with a tiny bit of explosives so that the entire mountainside can be blown up all at once. Nuclear bombs were experimentally used for this as well with great success, completing huge digging projects which would have taken months in just a few weeks using a handful of nuclear bombs.
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