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megaton's Usage Examples:

2 megatons/ton and higher have been reported for.

The yield for the weaponized Mark 24 was predicted to be 10–15 megatons.

The Mark 27/W27 devices had a yield of 2 megatons versus the 1 to 1.

This was revised in November 1955, with megaton replacing thermonuclear.

nuclear bomb ever developed by the United States, with a maximum yield of 25 megatons of TNT (100 petajoules).

Oscar-class submarines could carry six Poseidon torpedoes at the same time for a total yield of up to 400 megatonnes.

Penney established three megaton bomb projects at Aldermaston: Orange Herald, a large boosted fission weapon; Green Bamboo, an interim thermonuclear design similar to the Soviet Layer Cake used in Joe 4 and the American Alarm Clock; and Green Granite, a true thermonuclear design.

75 megatons; the actual yield was 1.

(thermonuclear weapons) has been estimated to six megatons of TNT per metric ton of bomb mass (25 TJ/kg).

5 megaton Redwing Navajo test at 95%.

which, if detonated, would produce the same energy discharge), either in kilotons (kt—thousands of tons of TNT), in megatons (Mt—millions of tons of TNT).

Synonyms:

explosive unit,