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City of London, a typical Early Middle Ages (500-999 AD) town, is roughly 1.12 sqmi, or 2900786.684 m^2.
Medieval towns are in square blocks usually, so length = (2900786.684 m^2)^0.5 = 1703.169599 m
A blast to cover the whole of such town would need a blast diameter (2 times radius) covering the hypotenuse.
Required blast radius = (2*(1703.169599 m/2)^2)^0.5 = 1204.322773 m
Non-nuclear air blast yield = ((1204.322773/1000/0.28)^3)/1000*1000000/2 = 39785.4804 tons of TNT (Town) = 1.66462E+14 J
I will copy the calculation to here once the calculation gets approved here.
Medieval towns are in square blocks usually, so length = (2900786.684 m^2)^0.5 = 1703.169599 m
A blast to cover the whole of such town would need a blast diameter (2 times radius) covering the hypotenuse.
Required blast radius = (2*(1703.169599 m/2)^2)^0.5 = 1204.322773 m
Non-nuclear air blast yield = ((1204.322773/1000/0.28)^3)/1000*1000000/2 = 39785.4804 tons of TNT (Town) = 1.66462E+14 J
I will copy the calculation to here once the calculation gets approved here.