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Depends on the yield, which varies from one design to another and from one configuration to another of each design. For example the MK-5 bomb introduced in 1952 and removed from stockpile by 1963 had at least 3 different yields depending on the pit use: ~20KTons, ~40KTons, and ~70KTons. The Castle Bravo test shot was 15MTons!

There is NO nominal atomic bomb!

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