Joe Rogan on nuclear weapons: what the evidence says · JRE #2018
FACT CHECK // JRE #2018 // EXHIBIT LOG
EPISODE AIRED AUG 8, 2023 · THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE
CLAIM CMRGC3K9STATUS: PUBLISHED
SUBJECT: NUCLEAR WEAPONS
SUBJECT: NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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The B-83, the largest deployed U.S. nuclear warhead, is equivalent to 80 Hiroshima-sized bombs. 80.
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The B83 is the most powerful weapon in the current U.S. nuclear stockpile, with a maximum yield of 1.2 megatons (1,200 kilotons), per Scientific American. The Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of about 15 kilotons, per Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dividing 1,200 by 15 gives exactly 80, so the 80 Hiroshima-bombs comparison is arithmetically correct. One technical caveat: the B83 is a gravity bomb rather than a missile warhead, and it has a variable dial-a-yield that can be set far below its 1.2-megaton maximum, but the figures Rogan cites are accurate.