• Deestan
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    Careful. That’ll add 14320344200 kcal to your dish.

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      one kiloton is defined as 10^12 cal or 10^9 kcal

      even advanced single stage nukes use up only something like 60% of fissile material so for modern 20kt-ish nuke you’re spot on

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        Thanks! I just took the trinity test’s energy release estimate and converted it.