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by tscs37 3217 days ago
I'm curious as well, my estimates based on data from a 5MT explosion being about 6.8 on the scale and various formulas, I'd get into the megaton range, then again, other methods do arrive at a sub-100kT range too.
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Jeffrey Lewis says that its a megaton, that would make them part of the club. https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/90419708681554329... (the guy from http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/ says so)

Interesting if India and Pakistan will decide that they now need to acquire and test thermonuclear weapons of their own. (unexpected side effects?)

Lewis' completion of that line of tweets says it's in the couple hundred kT range, but still a staged TN device.