Are there any conventional weapons which have the strength, or close to the strength to that of nuclear bombs?

Answer 1

There are a couple of daisy cutters that have the strength of a very small nuclear weapon

Answer 2

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq5.html

Nuclear explosions produce both immediate and delayed destructive effects. Immediate effects (blast, thermal radiation, prompt ionizing radiation) are produced and cause significant destruction within seconds or minutes of a nuclear detonation. The delayed effects (radioactive fallout and other possible environmental effects) inflict damage over an extended period ranging from hours to centuries, and can cause adverse effects in locations very distant from the site of the detonation. These two classes of effects are treated in separate subsections.

The distribution of energy released in the first minute after detonation among the three damage causing effects is:


Low Yield (<100 kt) High Yield (>1 Mt)
Thermal Radiation 35% 45%
Blast Wave 60% 50%
Ionizing Radiation 5% 5%
(80% gamma, 20% neutrons)


The radioactive decay of fallout releases an additional 5-10% over time.

For more info, go to the link and read up on it.

Answer 3

Yup....its called Brain Washing!

Any Group Dynamic has the power to bend mind and will to their goal. Governments, fringe groups, religious groups and all other organizations can gather those with weak minds and or bodies to their cause. This power is used daily in all human interaction for both good and bad.

Perfect examples: Rwanda's genocide attempts, The Inquisition, Hitlers genocide attempts and the first man who picked up a stick and beat another to death, thus feeling the power of his command over life and death, leading others to follow him like sheep to the slaughter or lambs to the riches.

Human kind are after all....just animals.

Answer 4

Yes except they wont leave the telltale radiation signature, and they are much larger in size and therefore you cant tip a missile
with them. Yes the Nuclear test could have been faked and most
likely were.

Answer 5

No, but the standard hurricane has the same force of 10,000 atomic bombs, like those dropped on Japan, per second.

Answer 6

yes,
need lots of them piles instead a tiny nuclear bomb

Answer 7

shure tnt but you must use an enormouse amount to simulate the blast.that is why they
say equals x amount of tnt in blast when refering to a nuke explosion so yes you could simulate a nuke explosion in intensity without the terrible side effects

Answer 8

the most power weapon in the world has always been, and will always be, an idea.

Answer 9

Moab is about as close as it gets.

Answer 10

mother of all bombs MOAB