The nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was a 12.5-kiloton atomic bomb, "an explosive blast equal to 12,500 tons of conventional high explosives (such as TNT) and caused high pressure waves, flying debris, extreme heat, and radioactive fallout." ...
The attackers could also use a warhead enclosed in a thin shroud cooled with liquid nitrogen then it would be invisible to the heat seeking interceptors. ... At best, it is merely a waste of money, another of those Washington scams in which pseudopatriots invent threats, wave the flag and pick the taxpayers' pockets."" ...
It is accompanied by a powerful pulse of heat radiation, sufficient to set fire to light combustible material. ... Immediately following the blast wave would be hurricane force winds, first outwards from the explosion and many seconds later inwards to replace the air that went outward, creating a vacuum-like effect. ...
