Reply #16: Everybody (in the big-boys club) has city-killers. [View All]

[Tesha]

Everybody (in the big-boys club: US, Russia, UK, and France)
has city-killer thermonuclear weapons ("H-bombs"). The typical
modern thermonuclear nuke has a yield of between 100 and 500
kilotons (with lots of them offering "selectable yield" in
those sorts of ranges).

Best intelligence says Israel has 100 - 200 "boosted" fission
bombs. These are probably <50 KT.

India, Pakistan, and (probably) North Korea have small numbers
of fission bombs.

South Africa used to have nuclear weapons but has since renounced
them.

Benchmark:

"Little Boy" (Hiroshima) was ~15 KT.
"Fat Man" (Nagasaki) was ~21 KT.

Tesha