What is "megaton bomb"

Usage examples of "megaton bomb".

In three days from now we use this to blast that grid and as much of Canopolis as may go with it from the blast of a megaton bomb.

It's the equivalent of a one hundred and ten megaton bomb, but with significantly different gross effects.

A 100 megaton bomb would make a crater about 19 miles in diameter, which would let Schaumburg off the hook (initially) in the unlikely event that it struck downtown Chicago dead center.

If one nation has a 2-megaton bomb, the enemy nation will develop a 5-megaton bomb.

This provokes the first nation into developing a 10- megaton bomb, which in turn provokes the second into making a 20- megaton bomb, and so on.

At the rate of one five-megaton bomb per week-just about one kiloton per minute-the Earth's nuclear stockpiles were estimated to be good for eight hundred years.

At the rate of one five-megaton bomb per week -- just about one kiloton per minute -- the Earth's nuclear stockpiles were estimated to be good for eight hundred years.

He could see the clustered grips for the spike-pods, featureless egg-shaped ovoids, that were the basic weapon for light vessels, a one-megaton bomb pumping an X-ray laser.

Do you gentlemen understand the significance of a one-hundred-megaton bomb?

The test of the zoo-megaton bomb had duly taken place and had been greeted by the public uproar anticipated by Moscow.

It was a hundred-megaton bomb, the largest ever detonated then or since.