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megaton bomb

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Noun1.megaton bomb - a nuclear weapon with an explosive power equivalent to one million tons of TNTmegaton bomb - a nuclear weapon with an explosive power equivalent to one million tons of TNT
bomb - an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
atomic weapon, nuclear weapon - a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction


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This week Tony looks back four-and-a-half billion years to the biggest cataclysm in the planet's history, when Thea, a planet as big asMars, smashed into the still-molten Earth at 25,000mph and with the force of billions of megaton bombs.
He and his crewmates were ordered on to the deck of HMS Messina and told to turn their backs and cover their eyes while the one megaton bomb was tested just 10 miles away.
Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan pinned the blame on the men on the ground who had actually prevented a tragedy-overlooking the fact that political demand for a megaton bomb (to impress the Yanks) was actually responsible for fuelling the fire.
 
 
 
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