> The village has buried beneath it enough explosive power in nuclear weapons to blow itself to smithereens many times over.
1/6,000,000th of the worlds nuclear stockpile[1], or approximately 1/500th of the explosive yield of an average warhead, will not be enough to cause any serious damage to 6000 acres.
1. http://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-f...
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
I wonder how small you can scale a nuclear weapon -- what's the smallest yield you can actually produce?
The smallest weapon the US ever produced is the Davy Crockett atomic gun which yields 20 Tons which you can also simulate using the above url.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device...
"We only actually have 0.83% of what’s required to completely wipe out civilisation."
But we could cause enough radioactive fallout to make a lot of people sick.
