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The atom bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and killed more than 70,000 people, was around 15 kilotons while North Korea's September blast has been estimated at a whopping 150 kilotons.

"Referring to tens to hundreds of kilotons, it doesn't appear to be talking about a fully fledged H-bomb.

"The initial phase will see planting of 100 ghaf trees against each kiloton of Co2 emissions at Emirates Academy for Civil Defence Sciences at Al Awir.

President Director of PT Indo Kordsa Tbk, Nuri Duzgoren explains, "The second factory covers an area of 24,000 hectares with production capacity of 18 kilotons of tire cord and 14 kilotons of polyester yarn.

" A thermonuclear device using the secondary ( device) is meant to be detonated when you want the yield to be several hundred kilotons, going up to several megatons," Iyengar noted.

That bomb had an explosion of about 20 kilotons. Other estimates said the North's nuclear device had a lower yield.

atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II, which killed an estimated 140,000, is estimated equivalent to 15 kilotons of TNT.

North Korea's recent test blast was only 1 kiloton, but further development could lead to stronger weapons.

''The explosion yield was less than a kiloton,'' the top U.S.

as some have advocated, but devices in the low-kiloton range, in order to contemplate the destruction of hard or hidden targets, while being mindful of the need to minimize collateral damage." In April, Benjamin Friedman, an analyst at the Center for Defense Information, wrote: "What is revolutionary about current proposals is the idea of reducing the yield of tactical nuclear weapons to levels approaching those of conventional explosives, to around one-tenth of a kiloton, which would theoretically bridge the gap between a conventional and a nuclear weapon."

Former Russian Security Adviser Aleksandr Lebed has stated that some eighty to 100 suitcase-size nuclear weapons in the one kiloton range are missing from the Russian arsenal.