If you put all the chemicals in firework in the USA together and set them off .....

Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav

Not even close IMO. First what makes a Nuke so devastating is the power confined to such a small package capable of releasing its destructive force in pretty mcuh the most efficient way possible. Remember a small Nuke is equal to 1 megaton of TNT that is 2,000,000,000,000 pounds of TNTl, that is right 2 trillion pounds of TNT.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't megaton bombs , I think.

Think something like 150 kilotons. Seems close to how much explosives we set off today !