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The most devastating nuke ever launched in the atmosphere was done during a H bomb test by the communists, it was about 60 kiloton TNT equivalent. But even at that time the bomb's power had been artificially limited (because of obvious residual radiation and uncontrollable side-effect issues). The nominal power of that bomb, i.e. if it had been launched at full power, was 150 kiloton in fact, which is more than twice as much. Keep in mind that the Nagasaki bomb was 10 times less powerful than this one.
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Actually, the Soviet test bomb
Tsar Bomba was capable of 100
Megatons, but was limited to ~50 megatons, according to Russian sources.
It would take something like 320 full force Tsar Bomba's to equal the energy released by a 9.0 Richter scale earthquate -
click here for the energy release estimate.
Joe Vialls is indeed entertaining to say the least. Joe actually has made some accurate predictions. I remember when there was all the flag waving going on about the easy "mission accomplished" in Iraq, Joe wrote one of his entertaining reports about what he thought would happen. While many of us knew that there was going to be no easy "mission accomplished" in Iraq, Joe managed to predict very closly how the resistance movement would rise up, and how it would be an effective fighting force.
In any case, Joe Vialls should be considered as a fiction writer only.
If you want to read up on more the more serious and plausible "conspiracy theories" I suggest that you go here
WhatReallyHappened.com. If you like to debate issues, or read up on a whole range of topics go here
Liberty Forum. Some of the people who post are very well informed, while others are probably insane or working for the other side, if you know what I mean. o_O