Talk:Minor Scale

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[edit] Largest?

Not by a long shot. I saw an old film of the US military stacking crates of TNT in the Nevada desert, enough to equal the blast of the Nagasaki or Hiroshima bomb, then setting it off to test how various equipment and structures reacted to the blast forces and ground shock. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.136.145.202 (talk • contribs) 05:55, 10 October 2006

That's nice. Cite it. With reliable sources.--Vidkun 13:25, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

But I believe that that test referred to above only was 100 Tons (0.1 kt). It would be kinda hard to stack 12,500 Tons (25 Million Pounds) of TNT and or dynamite. The Minor Scale test used ANFO, which can be poured down a hole (ammonium nitrate is in prill form and fuel oil is a liquid). Also, the test of the crates mentioned above happened at Los Alamos, NM.Joeylawn 00:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)