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NASA aims to destroy an Empire State Building-sized asteroid
(interestingengineering.com)
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Wikipedia (citing NASA) states that the force would be 1,200 megatons in TNT equivalent. Tsar Bombas being 54 megatons, Bennu is 22 Tsar Bombas.