Is there any limits of power or power to mass (or any other) limits for nuclear bombs?
I found this wiki article: Nuclear weapon yield: Yield limits. Is the information provided is correct? If yes, from where this limits come from?
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The sun and all other stars are in effect thermonuclear bombs. If they get heavier than about 10 times the mas of the sun they eventually blow up as a supernova, so there is a limit to the size but it's a lot larger than anything we will ever build. In the wikipedia article, the yield limits have to do with deliverability. It's no good having a huge bomb if you can only explode it in the factory where it's made. They're talking about "6 megatons per metric ton" so a 60 megaton bomb would weigh 10 tons. The article gives examples of delivery, with the limit being a 1.3Gt bomb deliverable by an Antonov An-225. |
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