How are nuclear weapons typically measured in terms of potential damage?
A nuclear weapon is measured in kilotons (kt) or megatons (mt) of TNT. For example, a one kiloton (1 kt) weapon is the equivalent in damage potential as 1,000 tons of dynamite. There is, of course, a dramatic difference between TNT and fissionable material such as found in a nuclear weapon, in both psychological and material terms.
