What is "megatons"

Usage examples of "megatons".

One day I asked the major how many megatons would have to be contained in the warhead of an antimissile missile in order to guarantee interception of aa SS9 missile with multiple warheads.

They possess firepower, however, proportionate to their size and evident power-generating capabilities, probably on the order of some tens of megatons per second.

Even a Hellbore bolt, generating six megatons per second offirepower, is dissipated by those screens, and the backwash of reflected energy bathes me and the buildings around me in an intense glare radiating as furiously as the surface of a fair-sized star.

So they hit our military and industrial targets with any number of bombs and missiles totaling one thousand megatons and we do the same to them.

It all depends on the megatons, the fission yield, air or surface burst, wind velocity, mean pressure altitude, descent time, median particle size.

Tremendous pressures pry the concrete away in pieces and send them, with megatons of mud from the banks, down into the river bed.

Twenty-seven megatons of various mineral powders were in transit, in storage, or undergoing processing in SSS-900-X's attendant fabrication modules.

They can have no idea of the really horrendous potential of the situation here in Santorini - the combination of all those megatons of hydrogen bombs, thermal plumes and volcanoes and earthquakes along the tectonic plate boundaries and the possibly cataclysmic results.