Nuclear Test Yield Calculator

Currently hosted from Wonkpedia

Input the magnitude (Mb), as well as depth and propagation if available (under "Advanced").

Alternatively, choose a preset to see historic nuclear estimates.

Sources & Thanks

This site was built and maintained by @madwonk to streamline work done by Jeffrey Lewis and bring it to a larger audience.

How does this work?

This site is a Jupyter notebook exported with Voilà. The source code is available on Github!

I've found a bug!

Feel free to file a report on Github, or send me a message @madwonk on Twitter.

Sources

Punggye-ri yield, no depth correction

Punggye-ri with depth correction

Novaya Zemlya

Pokhran (high estimate from BARC)

Moruroa

Chagai (corrected for tectonic activity)