Megaton in a sentence

Thankfully none of us ever woke up to a 20 megaton sunrise airbursting over a major population centre during the darker moments of the Cold War.

Today, Megaton faces threats from raiders and giant ants, but its resilience and resourcefulness keep the town alive.

He’s never been much of an action director, but his limitations are painful here, every fight and shootout as coherent as a car chase conceived by Olivier Megaton.

The Last Days of American Crime is directed by Olivier Megaton, who’s well-known for directing two-thirds of thefranchise, as well as the finale of the original Transporter trilogy starring Jason Statham.

After the lapse of 10 seconds, when the fireball of a 1-megaton nuclear weapon has attained its maximum size (5,700 feet across), the shock front is some 3 miles farther ahead.

If black holes do eventually pop out of existence without stopping, they could die in intense blasts of energy — equivalent to about one million 1-megaton hydrogen bombs, Hawking wrote — which we might also spot as bursts of gamma rays.

It is armed with a massive 100-megaton warhead powerful enough to generate a giant tidal wave to destroy coastal cities.

The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes.

The missiles were Atlas E Missiles that had a 3.75 megaton warhead 180 times more powerful than the blast at Hiroshima.

According to Megaton, the sequel will more than likely never happen. citation citation Extended version There is also an extended version of the film, referred to as "international version," "version longue," or "version intégrale".

After moving to Sarov in 1950, Sakharov played a key role in the development of the first megaton-range Soviet hydrogen bomb using a design known as Sakharov's Third Idea in Russia and the Teller-Ulam design in the United States.

Hence, small pure fission weapons with thin cases are far more efficient at causing EMP than most megaton bombs.

However, Dr. Mark eventually stated that a half-megaton warhead of small enough size could be developed.

However, in 1951 Teller and Ulam made a breakthrough, and invented a new design, proposed in a classified March 1951 paper, On Heterocatalytic Detonations I: Hydrodynamic Lenses and Radiation Mirrors, for a practical megaton-range H-bomb.

However the Hero of Time manages to free the Gorons and after finding the Megaton Hammer uses it to slay the Dragon and awaken Darunia as the Sage of Fire.

In large, megaton-range hydrogen bombs, about half of the yield comes from the final fissioning of depleted uranium.

The analysis of the debris at the 10- megaton Ivy Mike nuclear test was a part of long-term project.

The main missile was LIM-49 Spartan —a Nike Zeus upgraded for longer range and a much larger 5 megaton warhead intended to destroy enemy's warheads with a burst of x-rays outside the atmosphere.

The Oxford English Dictionary 2nd ed. gives both megaton and megatonne and adds "The unit may be calculated in either imperial or metric tons; the form megatonne generally implies the metric unit".

These would have been designed to withstand a one megaton blast at a distance of half a mile (800 m) and were a British innovation, subsequently exported to the United States.