Kilotons

We needed at least five hundred kilotons, which is beyond what a simple uranium bomb can generate. ❋ Mark Alpert (2011)

And it has a yield of twelve hundred kilotons, which is more than enough for our purposes. ❋ Mark Alpert (2011)

The atomic bombs dropped on Japan were primitive by modern standards: Each weighed more than four tons and produced yields (explosive output) between fifteen and twenty kilotons, that is, an amount of energy equal to the detonation of fifteen thousand to twenty thousand tons of TNT. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They estimated that the strength of the explosion was between ten and fifteen kilotons, about the same as the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. ❋ Mark Alpert (2011)

The U.S. intelligence community believes that North Korea tested a nuclear device last month with an explosive yield of several kilotons, considerably more powerful than its first test nearly three years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also what's this stuff about NASA mining kilotons of metal and oxygen? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The energy that was released from the bomb on Hiroshima was equal to 13 kilotons of TNT, that is: 13 × 4 × 1012 = 5 × 1013 joules. 1 kiloton is a thousand tons, is 106 kilograms. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

Even a relatively small chunck of rock (say in the 10 meter size range) travelling at 20000 to 50000 km/second has an huge amount of kinetic energy that cam translates into many kilotons/megatons of damage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the past week, the Winterdip brigade has swooped down and bombed me with fifty kilotons of deepression. ❋ Nathreee (2009)

“The MADM had a relatively low yield for a nuclear weapon (1-15 kilotons)” ❋ Unknown (2009)

An Orion-type launch would require about 800 nuclear explosion of about .15 kilotons each. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One fully loaded Trident submarine carries 192 warheads, each designed to explode with the power of 475 kilotons of TNT force. ❋ Bill Quigley (2011)

The MADM had a relatively low yield for a nuclear weapon (1-15 kilotons) though in human terms it would still be increadibly powerful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's a forgone conclusion that USA can do better, but we have to clean out kilotons of public ignorance about immigration first. (sigh) ❋ Unknown (2009)