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...publication, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, gives some idea of the energy required. A 100-kiloton charge exploded on the surface of dry soil will form a crater 80 ft. deep and 580 ft. in diameter. The crater of a one-megaton charge exploded on the surface will be about 140 ft. deep and 1,300 ft. in diameter. If a charge is exploded 40 ft. down instead of on the surface, the diameter of its crater is nearly doubled. All these figures are for soil, not for resistant rock, but it looks as if a single megaton charge...
...Civil Defense assumption for the drill: two 50-kiloton atom bombs had exploded over lower Manhattan and outer Queens, killed 1,104,814 and injured 512,000, knocked out Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, disabled public utilities...