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megaton
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megaton
1. one million tons
2. an explosive power, esp of a nuclear weapon, equal to the power of one million tons of TNT
megaton [′meg·ə‚tən]
(physics)
The energy released by 1,000,000 metric tons of chemical high explosive calculated at a rate of 1000 calories per gram, or a total of 4.18 × 1015joules; used principally in expressing the energy released by a nuclear bomb. Abbreviated MT.
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This is like increasing the megatonnage during the Cold War.
Spitzer's Bunch: Odd Bedfellows Join His Campaign by The New York Observer / The New York Observer
The best information is that North Korea now has at most two small atomic bombs--not the megatonnage class that could inflict "hundreds of thousands" of casualties.
Iraq, North Korea, empire, Plato .. by Chodos, Bob / Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
Whereas the Soviet series included more than forty monitored atmospheric tests over a period of only sixty days with a total megatonnage larger than the total of all preceding tests of all nations, the United States conducted only nine tests over the remainder of the year with megatonnages of twenty kilotons or below.
John F. Kennedy and the Limited Test Ban Treaty: A Case Study of ... by Wenger, Andreas; Gerber, Marcel / Presidential Studies Quarterly
 
 
 
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