"zxcv" wrote in message ...
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were about 10 kilotons and a B-17 had
a normal bomb load of about 3 tons and I have heard of a formation of 1300
B-17's on a bomb run that would equal around 4 kilotons (3 x 1300 = 3900)
would the devastation be the same as a small A-bomb? or is there some
lessening effect because of the spread of much smaller bombs?

The residual radiation is a great deal less. So is the psychological
effect.

Most Americans would be better of if the Germans had of developed
nuclear exposives first and demonstrated them on either empty US
landscape). It would have saced 500,000 lives in Vietnam and quite a
few mutilations of Americans in Iraq (I note the oxymoron predictions
of a dessert quaqmire are looking realistic) while the japanese would
have kept the Red Chinese in check in Korea in the 1050s.