Originally Posted by thommy

the bombs in hiroshima and nagasaki haven´t been even 1/1000 of the small nukes today.
the hiroshima bomb had 13 kilotonns - in the 60s the bombs have been meassured already in megatonns and the explosive power of today's bombs is in the gigatonns range.
just ONE of them is nearly the same explosive power than 1000 hiroshima bombs.

because of the so called overkill-strategy the existing nuclear power is theoreticly able to kill 100 BILLION people (so 92 billion more as exist).