It glowed like a 4th magnitude star, NASA says, thanks to an explosion equivalent to 5 tons of TNT.

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Early speculation from the South Korean defense ministry is that the blast was equivalent to 7 kilotons of TNT.

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The tests, carried out at Woomera (once the British empire's equivalent of Cape Canaveral), involved a charge equivalent to six tonnes of TNT.

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Most of the warheads are thought to be below 20 kilotons, equivalent to 20, 000 tons of TNT.

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U.S. intelligence agencies estimated that the 2006 North Korean test produced a blast equivalent to less than 1, 000 tons of TNT, a fraction of the size of the bombs the United States dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.

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Russia's defense minister said Monday that North Korea's blast was equivalent to between 5, 000 and 15, 000 tons of TNT.

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By comparison, the first atomic bombs developed by the United States produced an explosion equivalent to about 19 kilotons, or 19, 000 tons of TNT, according to the U.S. Air Force.

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