[Suicide Junkie]

Arggh! Don't you see?

The 50 Million Tons of TNT you pile up and explode turns into:

(50 Million Tons - 1 KG) of ash.

A 500KG Nuke rated at 50Megatons would turn into

(500KG - 1KG)= 499KG of ash.

The 1KG squirrel that releases a 50Megaton BLast turns into

(1KG - 1KG) = 0Kg of ash


A 50Megaton bLast is 9x10^16 J of energy
THEREFORE, a 50Megaton bLast is 1KG of Mass going byebye as energy.

This is not a nuclear squirrel, but an antimatter squirrel. That's the only way to get a 50Megatons bLast out of 1Kg of material.

E=MC^2 means that for your 50MT bLast, your mass goes down by 1KG. if you started with 1KG, you have ZERO mass left. The only way for that to happen is matter-antimatter annihilation.

Now, by measuring the energy released, you also happen to be measuring the mass lost by the device. (Since M=E/C^2)

Even for nukes, the mass lost is a tiny fraction of what you started with. All that means is that nukes are horribly inefficient at generating energy.