If a 20 Megaton bomb were used today the damage would be incalculable.

He announced that the Soviets would explode a 50 megaton bomb before the month's end.

"One of those is equal to what you would describe as a ninety megaton bomb.

The six hundred megaton bomb should have wiped the low-tech culture from the face of their planet.

Even if it were only a dozen, they could with megaton bombs inflict widespread devastation.

"Even though that body never reached the earth's surface, the force of the pressure when it exploded was equal to a twelve megaton bomb.

Three more megaton bombs were soon to follow...

The Chinese exploded a fifty megaton bomb.

An asteroid that big traveling at that speed has the energy roughly equal to a 1 million megaton bomb.

They dropped a five megaton bomb on each one, and blew both of them to Em-See-Square.

The spacephone speaker bellowed again: "We've got a megaton bomb missile headed down!

He authorizes the dropping of a 100 megaton bomb on Baghdad, resulting in the complete destruction of that city.

"It would take a million megaton bomb, and I don't think anyone wants a gigaton bomb orbiting the Earth for asteroid defense."

We had come in late in the discussion, but as it turned out, just in time for the detonation of Vornan's megaton bomb. "

That would require the extraction and storage of an energy equivalent of some one thousand megaton bombs..." His body was destroyed.

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

It is especially offered to button-pushers, rocket constructors, nuclear physicists, megaton bomb manufacturers, "small" atomic bomb producers, and last but not least, statesmen and politicians.

EMP strike capabilities: Israel allegedly possesses several 1 megaton bombs, which give it a very large EMP attack abilities.

In three days from now we use this to blast that grid and as much of Canopolis as may go with it from the blast of a megaton bomb.

Reggie cleared his throat and said: "What I suppose isthat your ten or twenty megaton bomb would do to a city just about the same thing that an intense neutron flux would do to a human brain.

Canadians opposed the idea not only because the five megaton bomb would contaminate the island and harm the otters, bald eagles and peregrine falcons that lived there, but also because the explosion had the potential to create a tidal wave.

Although scientists had warned of the dangers of such an accident for some time, the government blamed the workers who had put out the fire for 'an error of judgement', rather than the political pressure for fast-tracking the megaton bomb.

In 1971, Moore was a member of the crew of the Phyllis Cormack, a chartered fishing boat which the Committee sent across the North Pacific in order to draw attention to the US testing of a 5 megaton bomb planned for September of that year.