Can THIS Nuclear Weapon Destroy New York City?

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What would happen if the most powerful nuclear weapon ever designed exploded over New York City? From the creator who brought you The True Scale Of Modern Nuclear Weapons, this is the next step: one nuclear weapon, 100 megatons, a city of 8 million people. Could a single nuclear weapon really destroy New York City? On September 30, 2026, Moscow told NATO it is ready to use its entire arsenal, including nuclear weapons, if Kaliningrad is ever cut off. A day later Vladimir Putin repeated the warning, saying Russia would answer with "all weapons at the disposal of our country." Nuclear weapons are back in the headlines, so it's worth seeing what one can really do. In 1961 the Soviet Union built a nuclear weapon so powerful that its own creators cut it in half before testing it. History calls it the Tsar Bomba. It was 8 meters long and weighed 27 tons. Tested at 50 megatons, it equals 3,333 Little Boys, the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. At its full 100-megaton design it equals 6,667. La

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