A single megaton bomb could destroy any of our cities ( exception Greater London ) and all or nearly all its inhabitants.
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A few minutes later the other shoe ( and 20-megaton bomb ) drops and a street scene in Manhattan bleaches out into nothingness.
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So far, Earth has avoided any major effects from the sun's sporadic eruptions, which can unleash the power of a million 100 megaton bomb.
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He also bought rarely seen footage of Chinese and Russian tests, including the 1957 explosion in Siberia of a 57-megaton bomb, the largest bomb in history.
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In today's terms, it was a multi-megaton bomb, and the geology of the Persian Gulf played a central role, but on the other hand, Nicolson never foresaw Hitler.
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When ballistic missiles replaced bombers in the 1960s, most multi-megaton bombs were replaced by missile warheads ( also two-stage thermonuclears ) scaled down to one megaton or less.
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In bomb terms, to blow up a hurricane, you'd have to match its explosive energy, equivalent to a one megaton bomb ( 83 Hiroshima atomic bombs-worth ) every 20 minutes.
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No public mention was made of the incident at the time and it would not come to light until a 1981 Pentagon report revealed that a one-megaton bomb had been lost.
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But a comparable flash on the other side of our galaxy would splash the Earth with the same gamma ray energy of a dozen 50 megaton bombs exploding high in the atmosphere.
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"I wondered to myself during'Shock and Awe,'I wondered which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our president's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad ? " Ms . Streep said.
