setting fire to half a state the size of Washington. True wrath of God type of stuff. These weapons and their counterparts in the Soviet Union are the reason people of the era dug bomb shelters in their back yards. It was not mass hysteria there really was a world ending man made ...
000 sq. miles) then run out the math to heat that volume by five degrees. What you get is an amount of energy in that water eight times greater than was released in all the nuclear tests in the history of the world.