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<blockquote data-quote="Lace em up" data-source="post: 1352262" data-attributes="member: 17268">Comparing dynamite to a thermonuclear weapon of today is like comparing a musket to a turret gun of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache" target="_blank">Apache attack helicopter</a>. Ok, lets compare.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite#:~:text=Manufacture-,Form,MJ%20(megajoule)%20of%20energy." target="_blank">Dynamite</a> is usually sold in the form of cardboard cylinders about 20 cm (8 in) long and about 3.2 cm (1 1⁄4 in) in diameter, with a weight of about 190 grams (1⁄2 troy pound). A stick of dynamite thus produced contains roughly 1 MJ (megajoule) of energy. Other sizes also exist, rated by either portion (Quarter-Stick or Half-Stick) or by weight.vsThe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W88" target="_blank">W88</a>. A medium sized United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon" target="_blank">thermonuclear warhead</a>, with an estimated yield of 475 kilotons (kt), and is small enough to fit on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle" target="_blank">MIRVed</a> missiles.So, 475 kilotons is 475x1000x2000x2+20% sticks of dynamite. 2,280,000,000 sticks of dynamite. Over two and a quarter billion sticks of dynamite in an 800 lb package that can be delivered with a proverbial &quot;push of a button&quot; anywhere on the planet, in under an hour. Thats not even considering that we probably have hypersonic ballistic missiles and most places are much closer.[MEDIA=youtube]7aLiT3wXko0[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lace em up, post: 1352262, member: 17268"] Comparing dynamite to a thermonuclear weapon of today is like comparing a musket to a turret gun of an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache']Apache attack helicopter[/URL]. Ok, lets compare. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite#:~:text=Manufacture-,Form,MJ%20(megajoule)%20of%20energy.']Dynamite[/URL] is usually sold in the form of cardboard cylinders about 20 cm (8 in) long and about 3.2 cm (1 1⁄4 in) in diameter, with a weight of about 190 grams (1⁄2 troy pound). A stick of dynamite thus produced contains roughly [B]1 MJ [/B](megajoule) of energy. Other sizes also exist, rated by either portion (Quarter-Stick or Half-Stick) or by weight. vs The [B][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W88']W88[/URL]. [/B]A medium sized United States [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon']thermonuclear warhead[/URL], with an estimated yield of 475 kilotons (kt), and is small enough to fit on [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetable_reentry_vehicle']MIRVed[/URL] missiles. So, 475 kilotons is 475x1000x2000x2+20% sticks of dynamite. 2,280,000,000 sticks of dynamite. [B]Over two and a quarter billion sticks of dynamite [/B]in an 800 lb package that can be delivered with a proverbial "push of a button" anywhere on the planet, in under an hour. Thats not even considering that we probably have hypersonic ballistic missiles and most places are much closer. [MEDIA=youtube]7aLiT3wXko0[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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