Examples of kiloton in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web That’s enough to flatten a city or industrial target: by comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was just 16 kilotons. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2020 Current American bombs can range from 50 to 1,200 kilotons, so the explosion would be that much bigger. — Fox News, 13 Feb. 2020 The first test, Able, was a 23 kiloton atomic bomb dropped from a B-29 bomber and set to explode at 1,500 to 2,000 feet. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2019 The Castle Bravo bomb was exponentially more powerful than previous tests, and had an estimated yield of 15 megatons—or 15,000 kilotons. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2019 By comparison, the yield of the Hiroshima bomb was just 15 kilotons. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2019 North Korea’s first nuclear test took place in 2006 and had a estimated yield of .7 to 2 kilotons. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2019 Earlier this year, it was announced that in late 2018, a space rock had exploded above the Earth's surface with an impact energy of 173 kilotons. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2019 The resulting shock wave was as powerful as a 550 kiloton nuclear explosion—and the Tunguska object was probably much larger. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019 See More

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