COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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A ton.
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A metric ton.
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A kiloton.
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A megaton.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Megatonne, abbreviated as Mt, is a metric unit equivalent to 1 million (106) tonnes, or 1 billion (109) kilograms.
Detailed explanation-2: -… words kiloton (1, 000 tons) and megaton (1, 000, 000 tons) to describe their blast energy in equivalent weights of the conventional chemical explosive TNT.
Detailed explanation-3: -Similarly, a 1 megaton weapon would have the energy equivalent of 1 million tons of TNT. One megaton is equivalent to 4.18 × 1015 joules.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tsar Bomba, (Russian: “King of Bombs”), byname of RDS-220, also called Big Ivan, Soviet thermonuclear bomb that was detonated in a test over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961. The largest nuclear weapon ever set off, it produced the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded.