Apparently there are now 25 megaton nuclear bombs. From Wordnik.com. [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference
We have conventional weapons in the multi-megaton range. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Conservatives Falsely Claim New Obama Nuke Policy Prevents Nuclear Retaliation Against Chem/Bio Attack] Reference
And was dropped only twice, in sizes smaller than megaton. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
One megaton, I believe-no, you don't know about that, do you?. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
Bus drivers taught they own the road with their megaton buses. From Wordnik.com. [Driving a scooter in Taiwan] Reference
He was talking about them-eighty megaton capacity for each missile. From Wordnik.com. [The Savage Horde]
Have you prepared the megaton hydrocoils for the drawing Sargon supplied?. From Wordnik.com. [Return To Tomorrow] Reference
OK, we have moved beyond locusts, and now it is a plague of megaton bombs. From Wordnik.com. [MORNING SANCTUARY] Reference
Nuclear weapon test Romeo (11 megaton) on the Bikini Atoll on April 15, 1954. From Wordnik.com. [Just How Many Nukes Does the US Have? | Impact Lab] Reference
All my instincts say they'll be waiting with a megaton of death hi each hand. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
The Castle-Bravo blast at Bikini in 1954 was a fifteen megaton surface blast. From Wordnik.com. [This Way Lies Madness] Reference
Each also represented about half a megaton of three-stage thermonuclear device. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
Truly large bombs, the multi-megaton behemoths have largely faded from the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Russia now has 25,000 100 megaton nuclear bombs which split into eight in mid-air. From Wordnik.com. [Osama Bin Laden Renamed Muqtada al-Sadr by America] Reference
But some people are saying it was less than a megaton, which would be very small indeed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2006] Reference
In the cold war, the Soviets had thousands of megaton yield warheads targeted on US soil. From Wordnik.com. [Edge Of Forever | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Observing the while thing would be like being 250 feet from an exploding 100 megaton nuke!. From Wordnik.com. [Incompatible Arrows, IV: F. Scott Fitzgerald] Reference
"It is a fifty-megaton warhead," she explained as she slid the videocassette from its case. From Wordnik.com. [No Escape: Getting Out Of The Gulag] Reference
Before Coast Guard can intercept and sink it, suicide bombers detonate the 20 megaton nuke. From Wordnik.com. ["Wearing an overcoat but gloveless on a frigid morning, Mr. Obama invoked a speech Lincoln gave here..."] Reference
This was an attempt to loft a 10 megaton warhead upon the Russians, to get the big one underway. From Wordnik.com. [How to Use Middle-East Conflict to Sell War With Iran, Take Iraq Failure off the Front Page and Salvage the 2006 Electi] Reference
By the time I got to the fourth, and final, photo, a thousand-megaton blast in my skull had mushroomed. From Wordnik.com. [The Quickie]
Its availability in megaton quantities could totally transform many industries and create wholly new ones. From Wordnik.com. [2061 Odyssey Three]
But it was the color of the general's skin that pushed the idea into the megaton range as a political weapon. From Wordnik.com. [Gunning For Quayle] Reference
Thanks to the cloud of dust thrown up by this million-megaton explosion, there would be no crops anywhere for a year. From Wordnik.com. [THE SCIENCE OF DOOM] Reference
Larch put off another entertainment of small stuff, with a fifty megaton thermonuclear, viewscreen-piloted, among them. From Wordnik.com. [Space Viking]
And, let's face it: no matter who or what you are, if a megaton or two goes off five feet in front of your face, you'll feel it. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
One intelligence agent telling me -- excuse me, intelligence analyst saying to me that this is a case of megaton size for the FBI. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Robert Philip Hanssen Attorney Plato Cacheris Holds News Briefing on Espionage Charges - February 20, 2001] Reference
DEFENSE MINISTER: Very well, then, I gather there was a sub-surface nuclear detonation-in the megaton range-and it got out of hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
I could come up with a theoretical design for a megaton-plus device, but in truth it would have only a fifty-percent likelihood of success. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
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