What is "megadeath"

Usage examples of "megadeath".

Even the nuclear realists, busy as their minds must be with calculations of acceptable levels of megadeath, would not want to overlook anything.

Some had been totally evacuated during the megadeath panic in the last weeks of the year 2000.

If one could have seen the megadeath scenario, then one would have gone stark mad upon the instant.

He cued in a Megadeath song, punched a half dozen buttons, and leaned back in his padded leather swivel chair held together with duct tape and removed his earphones.

We and the Russians, the ones being reviled in Cairo and Beijing, in Caracas and Lagos and wherever, we saved the world from megadeaths, to be followed by radioactive fallout and maybe nuclear winter.

After Hitler, war was commonplace, genocide routine, nuclear weapons valued for the megadeaths they could generate.

But with the remainder of my contract to run I continued to feed variables into the ICC, allowing the few people who knew what I was supposed to be doing to think that the output of my programs was still megadeaths per milligram.

As much as possible, the Emergency tried to transform each new conquest with the same stresses that the Plague Time had wrought upon Balacrea: the megadeaths, the mindrot, the establishment of the Podmaster class.

And the Doomsday Books that, in comic-strip style, illustrated projections in megadeaths for each of the target towns.

Hadn't he made calculations for possible megadeaths in nuclear wars when he was in Moscow?

Sedley is a marvelous storyteller with an appearance that greatly enhances his every tale: a mane of white hair, huge muttonchop sideburns, twinkling blue eyes as bloodshot as those of a survivor of any Megadeath concert, a nose the size of a formidable yellow squash and the color of an overripe tomato, pendulously fat lips, a tattooed tongue, a robust and barrel-chested body, and hands large enough and strong enough to strangle an ox.