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50 Mt

equivalent to $2.1 \times 10^{17}\,\text{J}$, or roughly 1,500 times the combined yield of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. (The design yield was 100 Mt, but the ${}^{238}\text{U}$ tamper was replaced with lead to reduce fallout for the test — a direct illustration of the fission-fusion-fission tra

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