Nuclear numbercrunching
Yield of each nuclear power's first test (source).
My conclusion?
Be vewy vewy afwaid
Seriously? Blue Gerbil?!? Smiling Buddha?!?
Test (nation) | Yield | Gerboise Bleue (France) | 60 kilotonnes | Hurricane (UK) | 25 kilotonnes | 596 (PRC) | 22 kilotonnes | Joe 1 (USSR) | 22 kilotonnes | Trinity (USA) | 19 kilotonnes | Smiling Buddha (India) | 12 kilotonnes | Chagai-I (Pakistan) | 9 kilotonnes | (North Korea) | <1 kilotonne |
My conclusion?
Seriously? Blue Gerbil?!? Smiling Buddha?!?