one-megaton

That encounter had occurred shortly after Easter 1977 in the ready room, the plywood paneled concrete rec room with the soda and candy machines where missileers got ready to be shuttled out to their underground command silo, deep beneath the earth amid the silo farm of missile-size shafts sunk in the prairie that housed, beneath hardened domes, the actual one-megaton thermonuclear warhead–bearing missiles.

How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

That encounter had occurred shortly after Easter 1977 in the ready room, the plywood paneled concrete rec room with the soda and candy machines where missileers got ready to be shuttled out to their underground command silo, deep beneath the earth amid the silo farm of missile-size shafts sunk in the prairie that housed, beneath hardened domes, the actual one-megaton thermonuclear warhead–bearing missiles.

How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

A one-megaton nuclear blast is a firecracker compared to the massive H-bomb, creates a great noise like the one described in 2 Peter 3:10, instantly atomizing everything within a two-mile radius.

Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010

A one-megaton nuclear blast is a firecracker compared to the massive H-bomb, creates a great noise like the one described in 2 Peter 3:10, instantly atomizing everything within a two-mile radius.

Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010

However, if you prefer watching coronal whorls unleashing a billion one-megaton nuclear bombs, you can download this 25. 8MB QuickTime movie and this 35. 5MB MPEG movie courtesy of NASA and the European Space Agency.

“How's the (space) weather?” 2006

However, if you prefer watching coronal whorls unleashing a billion one-megaton nuclear bombs, you can download this 25. 8MB QuickTime movie and this 35. 5MB MPEG movie courtesy of NASA and the European Space Agency.

Archive 2006-10-01 2006

Going out each morning on alert and running my hands over one-megaton warheads, I was in awe of the unspeakable horror that lay inside such an unremarkable metal casing.

Practicing For Armageddon 2008

As we watched in horror, a one-megaton nuclear device incinerated a sunny corner of LA, about 10 miles from where I live and about zero distance from where anyone lives in the imagination of suburban America.

Gabriel Rotello: Nuclear Porn, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love '24' 2008

Going out each morning on alert and running my hands over one-megaton warheads, I was in awe of the unspeakable horror that lay inside such an unremarkable metal casing.

Practicing For Armageddon 2008

When I was writing my college thesis on a Macintosh SE, and around the time that Intel released the 80386 processor, the United States was programming one-megaton nuclear weapons with paper tape.

Paper Is the New Silicon 2006