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| Keywords: U.S. stockpile size 2006.svg Graphic displaying the size in megatonnage of the U S nuclear stockpile in 2006 Each dot represents 2 megatons The dot in the center is greater than all of the bombing dropped by all sides in World War II including the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The pink squares at the top represent the power of the warheads in one SSBN equipped Ohio class submarine 24 Trident II missiles Created by User Fastfission in Inkscape Created with Inkscape Data sources Warhead counts taken from Robert S Norris and Hans M Kristensen http //www thebulletin org/article_nn php art_ofn jf06norris U S Nuclear Forces 2006 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists January/February 2006 Yields then taken from http //nuclearweaponarchive org/Usa/Weapons/Wpngall html Nuclear Weapon Archive - The Enduring Stockpile The final table used to calculate megatonnage was <table width 50 > <tr><th>Warhead</th><th>Number</th><th>Max yield kt </th><th>Total yield Mt </th> <tr><td>W62</td><td align right >580</td><td align right >170</td><td align right >98 6</td></tr> <tr><td>W78</td><td align right >805</td><td align right >335</td><td align right >269 675</td></tr> <tr><td>W76</td><td align right >3 030</td><td align right >100</td><td align right >303</td></tr> <tr><td>W88</td><td align right >404</td><td align right >475</td><td align right >191 9</td></tr> <tr><td>W80-1</td><td align right >1 811</td><td align right >150</td><td align right >271 65</td></tr> <tr><td>B61-7</td><td align right >439</td><td align right >340</td><td align right >149 26</td></tr> <tr><td>B61-11</td><td align right >41</td><td align right >340</td><td align right >13 94</td></tr> <tr><td>B83-1/-0</td><td align right >626</td><td align right >1200</td><td align right >751 2</td></tr> <tr><td>W80-0</td><td align right >294</td><td align right >150</td><td align right >44 1</td></tr> <tr><td>B61-3</td><td align right >386</td><td align right >170</td><td align right >65 62</td></tr> <tr><td>B61-4</td><td align right >404</td><td align right >45</td><td align right >18 18</td></tr> <tr><td>B61-10</td><td align right >206</td><td align right >80</td><td align right >16 48</td></tr> <tr><td>W84</td><td align right >383</td><td align right >150</td><td align right >57 45</td></tr> <tr><td>W87</td><td align right >553</td><td align right >475</td><td align right >262 675</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td></td><td align right >Total </td><td align right >2513 73</td></tr> </table> With each dot signifying 2 Mt that means there are 1257 dots most squares have 16 dots some have 15 or 14 Ohio class submarines carry 24 Trident II missiles with 3 8 Mt total yields 91 2 Mt total so the pink boxes have 45 dots in them For the total tonnage in World War II estimate I found a figure which put the total Allied tonnage against Germany as 1 588 062 t the U S firebombing against Japan at 196 000 t and the German tonnage against Britain at 13 000 t Adding a nice round 40 000 t for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that puts us at 1 837 Mt There are still a few unknowns in there but I think it is safe to say that it is unlikely that the rest of the bombing adds up to more than 162 938 t and even if it does 2 Mt is the right order of magnitude which is all that is really important in something like this Fastfission If you want to credit someone credit Wikimedia Commons Otherwise don't credit anyone that's fine by me --Fastfission 14 59 14 April 2008 UTC Nuclear weapons data Strategic bombing | ||||
