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Originally Posted by Esg
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Heil for the science!!!
Happy to see so realistic calculations - I think it wasn`t possible to do better when we didn`t know the exact mass of BETA classes.
I must agree with your main point - of course S-1 isnt "convenience" - only nuclear device could give such power.
But looking at final megatonnes
I feel that there is some principal miscalculation here.
From military point of view there isn`t necessary to waporise flesh of all 235000 BETA. And as for me I got a feeling that Chisuru`s S-1 device simply bloved off the attacking live mountains. And for this we needn`t megatonnes and fireball with 730 m radius. The main damage factor of nuclear explosion is blast wave and the only thing we must calculate - is the pressure of its front. We know that wave with pressure 8 kPa can destroy tough buildings, so we could estimate the mass of BETAs living wave to get S-1 tonnage.
I got a feeling that it would be not strategic (megatonnes) but tactical - 10-20 TNT kilotonnes equivalent.