>>4373257Whoops you are correct, roughly 6.19 kg of Plutonium, but 95kg of explosive non-fissile material in the Trinity nuke, which was heavier than even the Fat Man. If the engineers used Hydrogen as the nin-fissile material they would have accidentally blown themselves up because they would have turned the nuke into a thermo-nuke with a megaton-class explosion.
>>4373303The US has detonated over 1,000 nukes in tests during the Cold War, there is a lot of data on it, we arguably have the most data on nuclear detonations, even more than Russia. Castle Bravo was the largest the US detonated, it had a radius of destruction large enough to almost completely level Paris and its suburbs in the 1950s. The Tsar Bomba was 3 times larger than Castle Bravo. The largest US nukes currently in service are 1 and 2 megaton nukes designed for single warhead ICBM missiles (destruction radius of about 1.6km)
