megaton bomb

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   a nuclear weapon with an explosive power equivalent to one million tons of TNT

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Questions about megaton bomb

What does megaton bomb mean?

megaton bomb means "a nuclear weapon with an explosive power equivalent to one million tons of TNT".

Is megaton bomb a common word?

megaton bomb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.