Oct 22, 2010 · 6.3 x 1013 Estimated energy, in joules, released from the Hiroshima bomb, the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT. At low altitudes, about half ...

This energy is capable of causing skin burns and of starting fires at considerable distances. ... One megaton is equivalent to 4.18 x 1015 joules.

Some older bombs had yields of about 20 megatons, or 1540 Hiroshima bombs. ... released energy equivalent to an astounding 15 megatons or 84,000 terajoules!

Lewis. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ) and caused widespread death and destruction throughout the city. The Hiroshima ...
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The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released when that ... In addition to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first ...

That bomb had an explosive yield of about 18 kilotons of TNT; and one kiloton of TNT is equivalent to one trillion Joules (10^12 J) of energy.

For example, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, ... kg (140 pounds) of highly enriched uranium, released energy equaling about 15 kilotons…

E is energy (measured in joules),; m is mass (measured in kilograms), and ... The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima released an amount of energy equivalent ...

In the Hiroshima explosion, countless atoms of uranium were split apart in a nuclear ... Splitting a single atom of uranium yields a tiny amount of energy.