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noun- The destructive capability especially of a collection of nuclear weapons that is expressed in megatons.

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  • A prime motivation for the increase in megatonnage of warheads was the "digging in" of silos in russia.
  • In terms of megatonnage, that's roughly 13 Hiroshimas per target.
  • This was this incredibly complicated world of megatonnage and mutually assured destruction.
  • Among them, they possessed sufficient megatonnage to remove the entire surface crust of the planet.
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