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  • adjective Of several megatons.

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multi- +‎ megaton

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Examples

  • The Air Force wanted fast-moving ballistic missiles and new generations of heavy bombers to carry its multimegaton nuclear warheads.

    The Mind Of A Missile 2008

  • The physicists who had developed these devices understood the potential for miniaturization and a simultaneous escalation in warhead yields, past the twenty-two kilotons of Nagasaki and indeed past a thousand kilotons, into the multimegaton range — the realm, when multiplied, of global suicide.

    How to Get a Nuclear Bomb 2006

  • The physicists who had developed these devices understood the potential for miniaturization and a simultaneous escalation in warhead yields, past the twenty-two kilotons of Nagasaki and indeed past a thousand kilotons, into the multimegaton range — the realm, when multiplied, of global suicide.

    How to Get a Nuclear Bomb 2006

  • The physicists who had developed these devices understood the potential for miniaturization and a simultaneous escalation in warhead yields, past the twenty-two kilotons of Nagasaki and indeed past a thousand kilotons, into the multimegaton range — the realm, when multiplied, of global suicide.

    How to Get a Nuclear Bomb 2006

  • Asteroid-Free Takes Science, Soft Touch Ex-astronaut Rusty Schweickart wants to save the world from an incoming asteroid -- the multimegaton variety blamed for killing the dinosaurs -- and he thinks that the only sure-fire way to keep them away is by using, of all things, diplomacy.

    Keeping the Earth 2008

  • This force is composed of a large number of inter-continental bombers capable of carrying several multimegaton bombs, augmented by hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering multimegaton warheads.

    The Future of Canadian Defence in the Nuclear Era 1963

  • For example, when we built an ICBM capable of depositing ten, multimegaton warheads most anywhere on the planet in 30 minutes or less, we named it the Peacekeeper.

    Vodkapundit 2009

  • It's no good for controlled fusion, for power, but the deuterium salt makes the prettiest multimegaton explosion you ever saw. "

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • It's no good for controlled fusion, for power, but the deuterium salt makes the prettiest multimegaton explosion you ever saw. "

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

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