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Originally posted by Gemini
about hiroshima...
Just to keep the story straight... those bombs droppped on Japan were NOT nuclear devices. They were hydrogen bombs... fore runners of todays nuclear devices.  They had less power than even one of the smallest nuclear weapons of today. 
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Just to set the record straight. The bombs dropped on Japan were not hydrogen bombs, they were the fore runners of the Hydrogen bomb and yes they were nuclear devices.
You are correct about the power of the bombs. The devices used on Japan were between 10-20 Kiloton bombs. The average size devices in our arsenal are now between 1-5 Megaton bombs. We have much larger devices but 1-5 Megatons is the average. The old USSR once claimed to have either a 50 Megaton Bomb or a 100 Megaton Bomb but this may have been BS. A 1 Megaton Bomb will kill virtually everyone in a city the size of New York city, with initial blast, radiation sickness and/or cancer.